Contributor Series 4: Aspects of the Elephant Hunger Strike By Ivan Jenson I am going on a hungry for love strike where I will refuse all nourishment until something is finally done about the rampant loneliness that plagues the earth I want to raise awareness for the millions who pang needlessly against the walls of […]
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Contributor Series 4: Aspects of the Elephant, Love Continues
Contributor Series 4: Aspects of the ElephantLove ContinuesBy James G Piatt Boyish blond hairGraying and thinOnce strong fingersNow bony and frailA heart crying outTo the child withinA soul trying to recallA vanishing taleA mind seekingFor answers to loveAn old man searchingfor reasons to beWeary hands reachingFor his loving wifeLean arms encirclingHer thin bodySitting togetherHer head […]
Contributor Series 4: Aspects of the Elephant, The Silence of You
Contributor Series 4: Aspects of the Elephant The Silence of You By Bobbie Troy sometimes i wish i could suck the silence from the air then wrap it around you and hope that you invite me in Bobbie Troy’s poetry (Dear Diane [Pushcart Prize nominee], Soldier, Merry Christmas, My Love, and Facing Self-Doubt) appeared at […]
Contributor Series 4: Aspects of the Elephant, Match
At long last: Contributor Series 4: no longer unsubtitled! Aspects of the Elephant, how apt is that? This series, all 26 poems of it, will explore the many aspects of the elephant, not in all its forms, for that would require an infinite number of poems, but in various forms. Some of our writers are […]
At Work
Mariah Boone’s poetry is, at heart, about motherhood. Not the 1950s iconic motherhood, but real-life, in-the-trenches, the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly motherhood (Cellaress at Thanksgiving, Night House, Packing for Day Care, Eclipse). Women will laugh when they read this poem, men will cringe. Man up, gentlemen. This is from whence you came. Run from it, fear it, respect it. […]
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