Nicole Yurcaba’s most recent poem to appear here was “Sunday Morning, Lying Beside My Fiancé” (October 2018). Dancing to Aerosmith in My Underwear By Nicole Yurcaba I’ve heard this song throughout my 31 years. This band, too. Neither are favorites. I don’t even like Aero- smith, and, yet, this Sunday morning as my fiancé pounds […]
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Nightmare (die dancing)
T.S. Hidalgo’s most recent poem to appear here was “The saint girl child” (October 2018). Nightmare (die dancing) By T.S. Hidalgo Fire stoked in the depth of dreams (I think that she has a lover): today is, in the REM cycle, giving me information, information, information, more information… welcome, castaways, to Freedom Street; the number […]
Do you know, love
Sushant Supriye’s most recent poem to appear here was “The Return” (January 2019). Do you know, love By Sushant Supriye O dear, I love the far-away, lost expression in your eyes. I love the corners of your sad smile which seem like a scab over a wound. I love the unwrinkled silence that lies between […]
Morning Visitor
Molly Frederick’s most recent poem to appear here was “Gentle Carpentry” (January 2019). Morning Visitor By Molly Frederick One autumn morning I see a wraith standing on the blue stone terrace of a Tudor mansion. Her thin lavender gown and ashen hair flutter enticingly in the breeze. Sheer sleeves drop back from pale, spindly arms […]
With Trump, It’s Come to This
Max Reif’s most recent poem to appear here was “Domestic Revelation” (December 2018). With Trump, It’s Come to This By Max Reif When the President’s mind is a maelstrom, an abyss, a sinkhole into which he seems to be drawing the whole world, what do you do? A mighty battle is taking shape— law and […]
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