John Anthony Fingleton lives and writes in Paraguay. The Rain Began By John Anthony Fingleton The rain began on Tuesday, and never stopped for days, sewers overflowed, making river roads— that flooded most highways. Buses splashed while cars got stuck, like beached ships in a storm, some brave pedestrians, waded to work— schoolchildren stayed at […]
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Are We Allowed to Be Old?
Claire Scott’s most recent poem to appear here was “Retirement” (May 2019). Are We Allowed to Be Old? By Claire Scott No longer color our hair blue-black or blonde, while staring at fourteen year olds in People Magazine No longer lift our faces to the tune of a hundred dollars plus tip, blackheads, whiteheads, greenheads […]
My Life
Dianne Deloren is an artist, writer and speaker living in Santa Fe, New Mexico. My Life From where I sit now My life feels like a film That plays much too fast, Catching glimpses of images That flit by before I can hold them. Like those annoying trailers In the movie theater, Bits and pieces of […]
Heart Throb
Michael Copeland’s most recent poem to appear here was “Wishing and Hoping” (May 2019). Heart Throb By Michael Copeland The azure colored sea sky a distant daytime memory, with rippled water dancing and wind blowing lovely fair. As the ebon eve to the Westward falls its liquid color, my pulse quickens to your approaching sweetness. […]
I am . . .
Sydney Blondell is a student at Bridgewater College in Bridgewater, Virginia, home of the Bridgewater International Poetry Festival. I am . . . By Sydney Blondell First and foremost a woman. The product of being raised by a strong, single mother. The only person on this earth who shares my mother’s eyes. A city, a […]
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