Darryl Willis’ most recent poem to appear here was “Year Four” (November 2016) Empty spirits By Darryl Willis An empty bottle’s on the floor but the spirits haven’t left. They force their way into my brain, clouding and yet strangely clear. My best friend was blown to hell while I picked up a little shrapnel. I’m […]
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Year Four
Darryl Willis’ most recent poem to appear here was “To Pray With Priests” (August 2014) Year Four By Darryl Willis All Saints Day has come again. Your shade falls dark across my door. The velocity of life appears to mitigate missing you except at odd moments when I see your face in my glass or feel […]
To Pray With Priests
Darryl Willis’ most recent poem to appear here was Svyatorgorsk 2013 (November 2013). To Pray With Priests February 22, 2014 By Darryl Willis Let everyone know that Ukraine will be shining soon because she will spread her wings as God desires it. –Taras Shevchenko (1814-1861) One could do worse than build a wall of prayerful […]
Svyatorgorsk 2013
Darryl Willis’ most recent poem to appear here was The Border Land (December 2012). Svyatogorsk 2013 By Darryl Willis I am all dried up and stretched out, it seems. Lesya and Lybid have abandoned me. No nocturnal visions or Hutzul dreams come to haunt me in my fitful sleep. Cossack sun caress my face; cast […]
The Border Land
Darryl Willis’ most recent poem to appear here was Dlya moyi doicheri (November 2012).The Border LandBy Darryl Willis The land between,for centuries trampled and abused.The golden steppes, a killing field: burning ground and burial moundrazed by Tatar-Teutonic hands,broken by hammered steel.Beneath the sky lie fields of wheatcrimson in the setting sun,but underneath Dnieper-deepthe blood of Bogatyr flowmerging with […]
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