Maria Arana’s most recent poem to appear here was “Go and Come” (August 2016) Youth By Maria Arana Youth What is that? a slurred promise of eternal bliss a landscape of hope everlasting vanity a timeless void frolicking joys a bitter reality shaken by novel demons Ah! Youth to be you Is to end life And […]
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My Mother’s Room
My Mother’s Room By Jaclyn Burr I remember waking up at night, crawling out of my crib, and ambling down the hallway to my mother’s room. She’d welcome me with warmth, discounting her own fatigue with soothing whispers of unconditional understanding. Sometimes, I still cry at night. I lay, staring into blackness. Lukewarm tears plunge […]
Olga
Olga By Matthew Voscinar Those brittle bones, like old branches, crackle under her own weight and barely bend. She lies underneath floral sheets and trembles. “They’ve locked me in here,” she says. The door is wide open.
Printmaking
Nancy Scott McBride’s most recent poem to appear here was “It’s Just Poetry. It Won’t Bite.” (August 2016) Printmaking By Nancy Scott McBride 1. When he was quite young, my son showed me a fossil he’d unearthed in our yard. It was a small gray stone with the imprint of a tiny perfect shell recessed in […]
What I Learned From Stamps
Max Reif’s most recent poem to appear here was “Back Then” (August 2016) What I Learned From Stamps By Max Reif The tall ships of childhood, stamps gave me the world. My favorite one, from Italy, showed a woman with a walled city atop her head. There were dazzling triangles with Finnish bike-racers, Angolan cheetahs, Croatian […]
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