Nate Maxson’s most recent poem to appear here was “Corona/Fugue” (July 2016) Insomnia By Nate Maxson Blue button on the close machine, lights down to suggestion Harp strings dangling, nerve endings from the ceiling: after a while you forget they’re around After a long while you might even forget there are walls in the first place […]
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Pusillanimity
Pusillanimity By Brian Eichenlaub Now I understand and have for years but am too much a coward to admit it or live it. So, I lust after lust knowing I can have neither it nor passion because I am afraid afraid to reach my hand up toward the face of God and pluck the ripe […]
Danger Eyes
Danger Eyes By Laura Lee You collided with my life like a train into a wayward car— except maybe I was the train, and you were the car. A 1980s muscle car, the red paint chipping away, the metal frothed with rust, but your bass still pumped; your rims shone. Your eyes oozed danger; your […]
Not lace—a saucer
Simon Perchik’s most recent poem to appear here was “These windows know all about lakes” (July 2016) * Not lace—a saucer and this table spreading out overflows the way stars are cooled, made feeble need to be lifted from under as if any rim kept shallow would spiral down let you enter the turn at floodstage and shoreline —Simon a lens! and its stench brings your mouth closer […]
Two, Together
Molly Frederick’s most recent poem to appear here was “Mystery” (July 2016) Two, Together By Molly Frederick Under evening’s strongest lens, a dusky spider’s shadow— grows bolder. Two separate spiders weave their intricate webs. Together they twist and spin, tug and tie. Engrossed in a traditional theme, with no variation. A more perfect union is […]
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