Marc Carver’s most recent poem to appear here was “Heaven on Earth” (September 2016) Shrine By Marc Carver I went to the garage and pulled two big bed frames out and started to build a sculpture in the garden I put all the planks around the side so it looked a bit like a wooden tent. […]
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You button this shirt
Simon Perchik’s most recent poem to appear here was “even in the dark” (September 2016) * You button this shirt the way doves break free and the magician bows —begin by reaching in though the applause even now is darkening on a calendar that has no mornings no secret place was saved for the sleeve half fleece half dripping oil—your sweat louder and louder covered with […]
Arrivals
E.V. Wyler’s most recent poem to appear here was “In Still Waters” (September 2016) Arrivals By E.V. Wyler When the sparks of remembrance start rapidly firing, from scenes in the old, leather-bound album we’re admiring, grandma’s recollections, culled from decades-delayed reflections, ignite inter-generational, time-traveling incite. Words, defrosting the faded photographs, foster the stories frozen in her […]
Jewish Museum
Jewish Museum By T.S. Hidalgo <<Olga, a piano teacher: she was arrested as she left one of her classes, and then confined to the spacetime mystery that orcs had created in her land, Bohemia>>, one of the tour guides says (when everything is in flames, everything has inhuman pain and the power of the sacraments: […]
Dailiness
Hadley Hury’s most recent poem to appear here was “Return Trip” (September 2016) Dailiness By Hadley Hury I‘ve never prayed along a strand of beads or bowed on a prayer rug five times a day, but I may have heard echoes of Tibetan chants or pilgrim steps across the hills of northern Spain when I rub […]
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