Boghos Artinian’s most recent poem to appear here was “SETI” (April 2015) Mock Sacrifice By Boghos Artinian It was a quiet spring morning. Little Faysal was playing as usual with his sling. Unfortunately, that day, he hit the eye of Nadia, the beloved cow of Jad, his uncle, and blinded it. ‘Wallahi la idbahak’ ‘By […]
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Götterdämmerung
Frieda Landau’s most recent poem to appear here was “Contemplating Gainsborough’s Blue Boy” (October 2016) Götterdämmerung By Frieda Landau Twas love that killed the gods and burned Valhalla to cinder and ashes. The funeral pyre of Odin’s daughter And her god-bedeviled lover avenged Their deaths, flames leaping the Rainbow Bridge To catch the vaulted halls where […]
Daylight Saving Time
Gary Priest’s most recent poem to appear here was “Bled Out” (October 2016) Daylight Saving Time By Gary Priest Spring Outside the storm clouds are committing suicide; muzzle flashes disconnecting the candy floss, and bringing the rain, dark and thick as blackcurrant jam, or splattered cerebral matter. I follow each morose H20 poem down the […]
Nonnative Species
Nonnative Species By Patricia Asuncion Then, neighborhoods of immigrants wrestled with American repackaging—a trimming of fat for better sales in a new world market. Italians in guinea-tees muscled to the prime case of the butcher shop with popular pepperoni and prosciutto; behind storefront homes, Poles peddled blood soup and pierogis; Jews pushed bagels, pastrami and […]
Old Street at Wall Street (I don´t like mondays)
T.S. Hidalgo’s most recent poem to appear here was “Oblivion” (November 2016) Old Street at Wall Street (I don´t like mondays) By T.S. Hidalgo Explaining the silence… what for? (or closing the curtains to Christ): a businessman, Cerruti suit, Lakers cap, he crosses a Gothic graveyard, after market close, on the way home: concrete cold in […]
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