Bob Elmendorf lives and writes in Maiden Bridge, New York. The Photographer By Bob Elmendorf At the end of December you shudder through the forest hungry for light on your pools and rapids silvered with mercury, slough frost to tint a scale one wind from ice. Pewter ewers no sideboard has contained fill whose greens […]
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Once
Howard F. Stein’s most recent poem to appear here was “Arithmetic” (April 2018). Once By Howard F. Stein Missing you is part of remembering you when forgetting you is impossible. Perhaps one day your face will be an image I once knew in flesh; a tincture of wistfulness will take the place of throbbing pain. Once […]
Poet, why do you weep?
Susan Davis Gabbay’s most recent poem to appear here was “To A Muse” (March 2018). Poet, why do you weep? I weep for him who leaves his beloved and sings “Con te partiro”. Poet, why do you weep? I weep for the one who far […]
A Random Stranger
J.B. Hogan’s most recent poem to appear here was “The Mantle” (February 2018). A Random Stranger By J.B. Hogan It was not certain she would go. Desire struggled with indifference, doubt. Distance mattered, chances of success seemed remote. Even on the road, turning back was an option. But she went, parked well away from the […]
All That Glitters
Patrick Theron Erickson lives and writes in Garland, Texas. All That Glitters By Patrick Theron Erickson You may retain through exultation springing that spring in your step springing the lock lockstep and yet remain in the dark and reason thus laying bare the truth like nuggets gleaming that greedy men might make the more of […]
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