Lee Woodman’s most recent poem to appear here was “Vanquor” (June 2018). One Touched Me on the Shoulder BY Lee Woodman She landed softly and fluttered twice; I sensed I should not turn my head. After all, when you enter a butterfly garden, shouldn’t you be shy as a geisha? Keep your head turned left […]
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Ancestry.Common
John Delaney lives and writes in Port Townsend, Washington. Ancestry.Common By John Delaney You spit into a test tube and mail it to a lab to learn where you came from thousands of years ago, plotting the caravan route of your ancestors out of Africa. But if atoms could be tagged— from what star’s collapse […]
The One Who Wields the Sword
Ann Christine Tabaka’s most recent poem to appear here was “Counting Time” (September 2018). The One Who Wields the Sword Oh you who came before walking in the silver door. Who held the sword for you, when battles fought were through? You walked on air so high, the gods opened up the sky Daybreak before […]
The Cellist
Howard F. Stein’s most recent poem to appear here was “Taking Notice” (October 2018). The poem below originally appeared in Stein’s collection Centre and Circumference. The Cellist By Howard F. Stein He pulls off Brahms, Dvořák, Elgar, and Shostakovich with panache. He sways with his instrument like a ballroom dancer with a perfect partner; He […]
Here there is no wind
Emma Turner lives and writes in New York. Here there is no wind By Emma Turner At the house through the branches dogs without leashes their neck fat soaks in sun though the man took to the shade while ancestors played laughing at settlers who died from long lines of ants coming into their bed, stealing […]
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