This is the next installation in a series of poems written collectively by women living with cancer. The most recent of the series poems to appear here was What the Women Wrote, 4 (August 2013). What the Women Wrote, 5 By the Women Who Know Heartbeat Feats I have done my best, my worst, and […]
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The Good and the Bad of It
Michael Roloff’s most recent poem to appear here was distemper (May 2014). The Good and the Bad of It By Michael Roloff The first blackberries are late this year– it was a late spring. The blackberries will be that much more plentiful in fall– most will rot in the early rains. Most did.
Self-Fulfilling Prophesy
Sarita Joy Jordan is a two-time breast cancer survivor living with stage IV disease, surviving and thriving. Self-Fulfilling Prophesy By Sarita Joy Jordan First college graduate in my family. Not good enough. Single mother to four children, two boys, two girls. But you’re not married. Purchased my own home. How did you do that? Bought a […]
Creation
Andrew Badger’s most recent poem to appear here was My Days (May 2014). Creation By Andrew Badger Slow motion memories captured in time-lapse cinema twirl like misplaced dervishes in steamy dreams by morning every sensual detail forgotten lost in twisted knotted malodorous sheets. Even daytime reveries host spinning prayer-wheel flashes of vague scenes strobing distorted […]
Images
Rafael Ayala Páez’ most recent poem to appear here was They do not burn (May 2014). Images* By Rafael Ayala Páez If you saw what solitude ………………….represents earth without wind Your face was moon ………………….over a sea a plain a dawn Wait wait Time was a fabric ………………….The tic-tac of a frozen tide Your face […]
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