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Afternoon Pine

12.28.13 Posted in today's words by

Molly Frederick’s most recent poem to appear here was Apple Blossoms (September 2013). Afternoon Pine By Molly Frederick The shine on longleaf pine needles, star-like, white silver, gleams So near the forest-green filaments as to seem a part of them. ……………But we know better. Highlights spinning across green edges make it always seem a tree […]


Untitled

12.27.13 Posted in today's words by

Mildred Speidel’s most recent poem to appear here was Overwhelmed (April 2013). Untitled By Mildred Speidel This island was large and lovely once, rich with laughter, children, music. As the years went by many left for other shores. Now it’s just me and Faithful, my cat. It is quite lonely. Faithful can’t last much longer. […]


Wishing Well

12.26.13 Posted in today's words by

KC Bosch’s most recent poem to appear here was Last Load Out of Leesburg: April 17 (July 2103). Wishing Well By KC Bosch I don’t understand beautiful hospital decor. Is it supposed to make you want to hang around? Come visit more often? I wouldn’t be caught dead in a place that didn’t have a […]


Stained glass

12.24.13 Posted in today's words by

A joyful poem by Christopher Roe. Stained glass By Christopher Roe Moonlight through .. a stained glass window and blue shifts to green .. and yellow to orange red deepens and purple .. dances in this light show as it pours through the oriel .. nestled in its flange and fills the room .. and […]


Wittgenstein’s Onion

12.23.13 Posted in today's words by

Jasmina Tacheva peels us an onion. Wittgenstein’s Onion By Jasmina Tacheva I’m undressing you the way Wittgenstein unzips the secrets of his onion –slowly and uncarefully kiss by kiss illusion by illusion the proto-truth, the one that needs no proof because it is my own creation, will hatch inside of you I will find your […]


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