Nels Hanson’s most recent poem to appear here was “Rescue” (June 2018). Zealandia By Nels Hanson Have you heard there’s an eighth continent lost undersea, enveloping New Zealand, shape like huge Italy with its boot? Joined to Australia and Antarctica before breaking off 80 million years ago Zealandia is same size as India, just six […]
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Sonnet 12, A Velvet Rhapsody
Ken Allen Dronsfeld lives and writes in Seminole, Oklahoma. Sonnet 12, A Velvet Rhapsody By Ken Allen Dronsfeld In a cool amber mist and wispy bonds; a chilly stillness asleep in despair; grayish clouds fading in a morning’s flair dissolving above the bare trees and pond. sunrise fights with pious tenacity; to burn off this […]
The Coming of Comfort
Judith Askew’s most recent poem to appear here was “Generational Inattention” (May 2018). The Coming of Comfort By Judith Askew A chair seats us aloft above direct contact with a floor, but not floating above it, cross-legged, like a sultan hovering over a Persian carpet in his seraglio, which we might have seen on the […]
Sorrow
Michael Copeland’s most recent poem to appear here was “A Lover” (June 2018). Sorrow By Michael Copeland Farewell lovely maiden good life to thee I pray. Fly free in the knowledge of my captured heart. ‘Tis nevermore to be, the joining of loving spirits. With hand on my heart beat I wish you Godspeed and […]
An Ordinary Life
Christine Taylor, a multiracial English teacher and librarian, resides in her hometown Plainfield, New Jersey. She serves as a reader and contributing editor at OPEN: Journal of Arts & Letters. Her work appears in Modern Haiku, apt, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, The Rumpus, and The Paterson Literary Review among others. She can be found at […]
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