Jerry Durick’s most recent poem to appear here was “ESL” (October 2016) Man and His Phone By Jerry Durick Eventually, they pinged his phone But it was dead, as he was dead They found; they found them, one Holding the other, trying till the end They guessed, to get a signal, but out There, there never […]
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Going Home
Nancy Scott McBride’s most recent poem to appear here was “Nature Boy” (April 2017) Going Home By Nancy Scott McBride I started going back shortly after I left. I went back and back and back again. I’m not sure why, because when I lived there, all I wanted to do was get away. But maybe I […]
New Orleans
Demi Richardson lives and writes in Indiana, Pennsylvania. New Orleans By Demi Richardson Cicatrix—(n) the scar of a healed wound; or, a scar on the bark of a tree; or, a mark on a stem after the leaf has become detached. A verse in Solomon goes like this: catch for us the foxes, the little […]
Becoming My Father
Richard Schnap’s most recent poem to appear here was “Decision” (March 2017) Becoming My Father By Richard Schnap I put on the light blue shirt The diagonally striped silk tie Step into the khaki pants Slip into the wing tip shoes And suddenly feel transformed Into a man that I barely knew Who told me once […]
Stop to Think
Maria Arana’s most recent poem to appear here was “Youth” (September 2016) Stop to Think By Maria Arana Once or twice, I stop to think of times gone by that shouldn’t have been Embers rush to shatter dreams seams which never heal Once or twice, I stop to think of times gone by that spoke of […]
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