Joan Fishbein’s poem The Complexity of Technology appeared here in March 2014. The Yield By Joan Fishbein she understood the shape and size of her lot the water flow wind pattern when she looked out the kitchen windows she pictured texture foliage aroma of what she wanted […]
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Strip Tease
Lori Izykowski’s most recent poem to appear here was Spring Snow (April 2013). Strip Tease By Lori Izykowski Peeking from behind the shroud The world functions around me … Without me. Peeking from behind the shroud Glimmers of things I cared about Things that made me smile Peeking from behind the shroud An exotic dancer […]
Galapagos Tortoise
Michael Estabrook is a recently retired baby boomer poet freed finally after working 40 years for The Man and sometimes The Woman. No more useless meetings under fluorescent lights in stuffy windowless rooms. Now he’s able to devote serious time to making better poems when he’s not, of course, satisfying his wife’s legendary honey-do list. Galapagos […]
Landscape of a dream
Christopher Roe’s most recent poem to appear here was Taking Flight (March 2014). Landscape of a dream By Christopher Roe I stand on a beach of bone white skeletons dressed in the thin mist of the sea. You come to me riding in an old maroon beach wagon with battered wooden sides driven by my […]
Myth of Mother
Rose Arrowsmith DeCoux’s most recent poem to appear here was Let Grief Pour Out of You as if You Are Watering a Garden (March 2014). Myth of Mother By Rose Arrowsmith DeCoux My mother: ..Grandpa’s favorite, they both bit their tongues when laughing as if ..trying to hold a sneeze, slapped ..their legs ..rocking back […]
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