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Marooned Bells

12.12.18 Posted in today's words by

Michael D. Amitin’s most recent poem to appear here was “4 a.m. Zen Sunday Blue” (October 2018).  Marooned Bells By Michael D. Amitin Marooned on a couch brown raft-rocking lle-de-France Sullen blackboard jazz blowin’ from across the navy New Orleans seas. Slo-mo angels doing somersaults on my torn red curtain reverie in these broken Halloween […]


Riff

12.11.18 Posted in today's words by

Sanjeev Sethi’s most recent poem to appear here was “Fork” (November 2018).  Riff By Sanjeev Sethi Saltations of the generous kind place me in a position I’m in. If bound and bent to wreck oneself, no agency can upraise. You can’t live only for hat tips. There is no peace with pendulums. Spouse, siblings, the […]


Search for Love

12.10.18 Posted in today's words by

Search for Love By Lawrence Goldberg       For Aniol* I asked for my lover at her house, But she was nowhere to be found. I went up and down the street, Knocking at doors, putting on dumb shows Of my yearning. They drove me out As a man without mind. I asked for my lover […]


Could We Be the Same?

12.09.18 Posted in today's words by

Barbara Tramonte’s most recent poem to appear here was “Come Home” (September 2018). Could We Be the Same? By Barbara Tramonte Could we be the same two people who took a canteen, it leaked, got on a plane went to San Francisco, got off the plane with no place to live, Rice Krispies and sardines […]


My Grandpa’s Moans

12.08.18 Posted in today's words by

Simon Fleischer’s most recent poem to appear here was “Sitting Alone in the Shul at Night” (December 2017). My Grandpa’s Moans By Simon Fleischer I Whereas at forty-five waking in the middle of the night is commonplace, at eight or ten the staccato of his moaning slumber-thump was unusual, so my upright jerk was followed […]


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