Nick Hawkins’ most recent poem to appear here was “Summer’s End” (July 2019). Orange Sky (This One Empty Chair) By Nick Hawkins There’s something unique about reminiscing beneath an orange sky, long vacant stares ascending toward a wilderness of unimaginable grief and pain, visions of blood and tears seeping through the serrated edges of broken […]
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In the Beginning . . .
John Anthony Fingleton’s most recent poem to appear here was “The Rain Began” (June 2019). In the Beginning . . . By John Anthony Fingleton Beyond the realm of shadows, Which always did exist, Where isotopes and neutrons still collide; A space of such omnipotence That makes one want to stare, Was created long before […]
Labor Daze
Patricia Asuncion’s most recent poem to appear here was “Up In Smoke?” (April 2019). Labor Daze By Patricia Asuncion Addicts writhe one rush to next. Adrenalin surge throbbing deadlines blur work into cold- sweat frenzies. Work-ethic dogma pushes red-eyed needles into high achievers who want job done bureaucrat’s paper trail in tri pli cate in […]
Wallace Stevens in Love
Thomas Locicero’s most recent poem to appear here was “For Robin Williams” (August 2019). Wallace Stevens in Love homage to Paul Mariani By Thomas Locicero In railway-divided towns across the whole of America, the cliché of star-crossed lovers was at one time as real and as abstract as love itself. Sons of the indigent had […]
Saturday Night at Ryokos
Claire Scott’s most recent poem to appear here was “Fact Checking Fake News” (July 2019). Saturday Night at Ryokos By Claire Scott my mother plays the victim card like a poker player plays a royal flush avoiding the shadowy recesses of her circuitous soul—see Carl Jung I wobble heavy trays of sushi to tables of […]
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