Changming Yuan’s most recent poem to appear here was Walking My Inner Being (March 2014). Outside the Zoo By Changming Yuan A hen party is held Around a sitting duck While there is a bull meeting Where you can see the elephant Getting the goose when it tries to tell The difference between the sheep […]
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A History for Samuel
Michael H Brownstein wrote this poem. A History for Samuel By Michael H Brownstein I was raised on a farm with no indoor plumbing and her long strands of rainbow and leprechaun glitter slide down her back. Let’s remember Samuel, she says. This is not the story of my life. Sometimes the heart of a […]
Can I Bloom Again?
Glenda Beall writes in Hayesville NC. Can I Bloom Again? By Glenda Beall Snow falls in Connecticut, sun shines in the south. February’s trees still gray and bare, but I see red-breasted robins, finches on the feeder, reminding me life’s cycle never ends. Can I bloom anew this year? Start over with a clean slate, […]
The Complexity of Technology
Joan Fishbein’s work has appeared in The New Verse News, The Southern Poetry Anthology: Volume One, Poetica, Helicon Nine, The Frequency Anthology, and The Origami Poems Project of Rhode Island. She has work forthcoming in a multi-author chapbook published by Main Street Rag. Joan lives in Providence with her husband. The Complexity of Technology By […]
Best Man
Kevin McCarthy wrote this poem. Best Man (for Dale Miller) By Kevin McCarthy We skied to a hot spring, and there was a great, simple rhythm to it: shush, shush, shush, shush, shush and silence when we stopped and puffs of vapor when we laughed, which was often Then the steaming nexus and those eccentric […]
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