Patricia Saunders’ most recent poem to appear here was “The birds will fly over the volcano” (July 2014) The coming extinction of teacups By Patricia Saunders What can you do with old teacups? Too short to hold flowers, too wide to hold pencils. They’re altogether too frilly and fragile. Only actors love them, for the […]

John Grey’s most recent poem to appear here was “Car Nerd” (May 2014)  URSULA By John Grey She puts seed out for the birds in winter, watches from the iced-up window as they leap from dish to barren lilac bush and back again. She plays cupid for cardinals, orchestra leader for the tit-mouse and the […]

Haiku sequence By Nicholas Damion Alexander leafless tree on a book, branches like hands begging for rain an AC unit thundering at your ears like a coming storm while Time drizzles its wet disappointment into your pen

Maureen Donatelli’s most recent poem to appear here was Daydream at the End of Winter (March 2013)  Ars Poetica By Maureen Donatelli However unlikely, it all depends upon the pulse soft skin along the inner wrist, the tiny bones the tangled curve of fingers guiding ink flow, words divining ground finding the seep, planting spaces […]

Beyond All Knowing By Joan M. Howard Infinite detail in a leaf infinite leaves substance of a feather? raindrop, oceans great mountain chains your face and mine and then the stars. Humans born into it— amazed at birds. Masters of use masters of a particle; and on a warm July afternoon from a window calm […]