Laura Zucca-Scott’s most recent poem to appear here was In the Shadows (November 2014). Summer Chill By Laura Zucca-Scott There is something about the cold In the summer that Catches you suddenly Impassive You reach out Shivering Heartbreak Can be mended But never forgotten
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The Soup of Us
Mary Meriam’s poem Survivor’s Prayer appeared here in November 2014. The Soup of Us By Mary Meriam Couldn’t I stir the pot of you To make the soup of us? Of course I could, you say Handing back the ladle To make the soup of us The farmers drop their seeds Handing back the ladle […]
Fallow
Don Thompson wrote this poem. Fallow By Don Thompson This field, fallow for years, has lost its memory. Though rife with dead weeds like unkempt hair, no new seed will germinate in it, as if soil could suffer dementia. A few phantom cornstalks remain from a season so long ago no one remembers if the […]
second language
Richard Luftig’s most recent poem to appear here was Draught River. second language By Richard Luftig in his imagined romance language, she speaks no then or if but only now. he loves to watch her lips as much as hear her voice, and wonders how vowels can be so clear and long when speaking such […]
Coffeehouse Poem #47
Erren Geraud Kelly’s most recent poem to appear here was The Apple Doesn’t Fall Far From the Tree (November 2014). Coffeehouse Poem #47 By Erren Geraud Kelly a girl sleeps in a chair across from me as i write this earlier, she sat on a bench outside starbucks unremarkable except for red hair which covered […]
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