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A Short, Sweet Season

05.09.20 Posted in today's words by

Joseph Murray lives and writes in Colorado Springs, Colorado.  A Short, Sweet Season By Joseph Murray 1. She’d stopped to speak. Standing by the fence,  awkward, shy as always, I managed to respond, smiling.  Ah, chance . . .  we’d agree to meet. 2.  That September,  seeming to bring to life an old song’s lyrics, […]


The World Through a Window

05.08.20 Posted in today's words by

Nancy Scott McBride’s most recent poem to appear here was “Times Like These” (March 2020). The World Through a Window For Cliff Miller By Nancy Scott McBride From this ordinary rectangle overlooking a field with mountains in the distance, I have witnessed many wondrous things. I’ve observed a family of deer grazing peacefully at dawn, […]


Painting Break

05.07.20 Posted in today's words by

G.H. Mosson has published several poetry books and chapbooks, including Family Snapshot as a Poem in Time (Finishing Line, 2019), and was coauthor of Heart X-Rays (PM Press, 2018), with poetry and literary commentary are forthcoming or have appeared in The Northern Virginia Review, The Evening Street Review, Measure, The Tampa Review, Smartish Pace, Free State […]


Her Epidemic of Bicycles

05.06.20 Posted in today's words by

KJ Hannah Greenberg’s most recent poem to appear here was “Oratory Redefined” (March 2020). Her Epidemic of Bicycles By KJ Hannah Greenberg Her animus urged her first return to that superannuated mode of transportation. Nearby, double-decker buses swirled trash and breezed passersby as she toured. Since the work of streetcleaners never made anyone prosperous enough […]


letting go

05.05.20 Posted in today's words by

Rachel Amaru lives and writes in Boulder, Colorado. letting go By Rachel Amaru I’m not ready to let you go yet not from the earth not into the sky not from one breath on this side to one on the other not into the clouds not into the air of the birds not into the […]


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