Charles Clifford Brooks III has been busy since we last saw him! Nights at the Plantation appeared here in August 2011. Today’s poem is from his new collection, Athena Departs. Overlooking Tom’s Garden By Charles Clifford Brooks III This evening, African guineas sneak up from underbrush in Lexington. All three look mournful, cluck, cry in […]
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Once More
John Pursch’s most recent poem to appear here was the answer is … (March 2014). Once More By John Pursch Falling from a hovering tower of amniotic haze, we slide deftly through darkness into the patient elephant of life.
The Uniform Commute of a Man Seeking God
Tristan Cody is a 19-year-old ox living in the poppy fields. The Uniform Commute of a Man Seeking God By Tristan Cody Corrosion set in. My tie gangly against the mint vintage attire that my children wore to school. Momma admitted she washed them with her soaps like role models that bore resemblance amongst a […]
Survivor’s Prayer
Mary Meriam wrote this poem. Survivor’s Prayer By Mary Meriam May comfort be The season I Didn’t die Given to me The season I Moss my way beside the sea Given to me The forest and the owl’s cry Moss my way beside the sea Inside the wind’s forever sigh The forest and the owl’s […]
Sole
B Joseph Biesek wrote this poem. Sole By B Joseph Biesek We shared the same cot in 2003, only he is not American. It’s nonsensical, and not erudite, to Compare myself to a wounded foreigner, as a Pacifist, a Liberal, an Intellectual? See, the Wounds are manically deep, if I do say so myself. If […]
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