J.B. Hogan’s most recent poem to appear here was “Unexpected” (October 2018). Jim Finerty Died By J.B. Hogan I know because he told me so himself. When did you die I asked? I’m not sure, he said, maybe it was the first day a young woman called me, sir, or when I turned 50, or […]
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Haiku Sequence by Nancy Scott McBride
Nancy Scott McBride’s most recent poem to appear here was “The World Through a Window” (February 2019). By Nancy Scott McBride a rainbow spanning the reaped field— my father’s blindness late crickets racketing at the window— my father’s silence a casket of ashes filling my hands— my father’s absence
Dark Side of the Sun
Ken Allan Dronsfeld’s most recent poem to appear here was “Sonnet 12, A Velvet Rhapsody” (July 2018). Dark Side of the Sun By Ken Allan Dronsfeld I rest on the porch in mid-afternoon The sky, a brighter shade of loneliness or despair. The sun is directly above, wielding shards of flaming rays. Tall glasses of […]
Big Boy Games
Patricia Asuncion’s most recent poem to appear here was “Fogbound” (February 2019). Big Boy Games By Patricia Asuncion Empty city lot for playground, big clubs for guns, kids crawl low in weeds. Today they are lookouts, buddies other days, breeding top-dog mentality that sticks beyond sandlot scrapes, to full-grown savagery. In Middle East schoolyard, Netanyahu […]
Zipporah Addresses the Blossoms, Whose Music She Cannot Sing, But Moved Her to Make a Wig for Her Bald Mother
Marc Tretin’s most recent poem to appear here was “Anniversary” (February 2019). Zipporah Addresses the Blossoms, Whose Music She Cannot Sing, But Moved Her to Make a Wig for Her Bald Mother By Marc Tretin You, wisteria, posies, and roses, when rain washed Mom’s cell phone from the compost heap and I saw her with […]
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