Leila Ryland Swain lives and writes in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia. Smoke Signals By Leila Ryland Swain Driving west toward blue mountains the sky, gray with unexpressed sorrow, hangs like a bed canopy on spikes of green trees. Round white clouds float up behind the hills like puffs from my father’s briar pipe; the sweet […]
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The Fermata
Pamela Sinicrope’s most recent poem to appear here was “An Exchange” (December 2017). The Fermata by Pamela Sinicrope The symphony has shut down. Violins rest in closed cases, strings loosened for quarantine. But I hear them still. Pegs, turned and tuned in practiced hands will play with cellos, clarinets, horns and trumpets . . . […]
Are You Satisfied
J.B. Hogan’s most recent poem to appear here was “Christmas Tree Street” (March 2020). Are You Satisfied By J.B. Hogan They fall without reason nor understanding, but you know why, you pull the silent trigger each day, pull it as if you were an armed robber coveting all the things you have taken from others. […]
Grocery Shopping
Lee Doty lives and writes in Kearneysville, West Virginia. Grocery Shopping By Lee Doty I enjoy a good sit in a small café where the coffee’s hot and the waiter’s scarce and my brain’s poppin’ thoughts like a semi-automatic causing chaos in a village til it’s closing time. I enjoy a good look out the […]
On the Other Line
Patricia Asuncion’s most recent poem to appear here was “Labor Daze” (September 2019). On the Other Line By Patricia Asuncion I wait for him to come to the public phone in the hall, the only government-sanctioned line to speak with anyone, my someone, in a dementia ward during the pandemic. I hear his faint shuffle, […]
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