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[Don’t Stop Trying to Commandeer]

07.20.14 Posted in today's words by

Steven Minchin’s most recent poem to appear here was Can Kill Above (March 2014). Don’t Stop Trying to Commandeer By Steven Minchin If I don’t stop trying to commandeer your eyes To get to your mind I’ll go mad with speculation See, now that it’s clear that you won’t give, Won’t blindly subside, I’m twisting […]


Blossom

07.19.14 Posted in today's words by

Glenn Johnson’s most recent poem to appear here was Blossom By Glenn Johnson Before my eyes, your beauty a pageant, a procession of spring blossomings ever unfolding one after another mesmerizing mysterious shimmers of reincarnated loveliness. How do you do this? I have no clue. Nothing I could make up, too rare to contrive, although, […]


Holding Tank 911

07.18.14 Posted in today's words by

KC Bosch’s most recent poem to appear here was Two Beers Down (April 2014), written with Stan Galloway. Holding Tank 911 By KC Bosch Sharky was not really a shark, just a catfish who looked like one, his long dark body amongst the neon orange of his cellmates in a forgotten square pond, caught stealing […]


Butterfly

07.17.14 Posted in today's words by

Cary Lynne wrote this poem. Butterfly By Cary Lynne Butterfly cheered his new look who knew the chances? Surreal to the sway and swing and sail aglint in the daffodil sun. Tinged the rose, dodged the oak, glanced the leaf and graced the mud, bumped the muddy screen, hailed the big begonia, and landed in […]


Michael Chabon

07.16.14 Posted in today's words by

JD DeHart is a writer and teacher. His work has appeared in a variety of places including Venn Magazine, Eye on Life Magazine, and Eunoia Review. Visit his blog. Michael Chabon By JD DeHart I am jealous of the one person I know who met Kurt Vonnegut And equally jealous of the girl Daisy-in-her-hair child […]


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