Jubilee Garcia’s most recent poem to appear here was Lament (March 2013). A Dreamy TaleBy Jubilee Garcia Do you dream?A fiddler’s string?A lover’s eye gleam?As mockingbirds sing? Do you hope?A flying boat?A magic cloak?A carpet afloat? Do you pray?For summer to stay?For a shady bay?For sweet golden hay? Do you read?A magic bean seed?As bleeding hearts bleed?A […]
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Summer Redundancy With Added Pleonasm
Gregory Gunn’s most recent poem to appear here was Provocation Inquisition (May 2013). Summer Redundancy With Added PleonasmBy Gregory Gunn Rooting my eyes tothe knotted spot upon a treelike a revolutionarymilitant among the trimmed- down budding branchesof spring, I pinned earsback for sea-ship’s timbreas well as caroler songand endured the bothersomegnaws of gnats on their lastlegs in […]
Taking Over Me
Steven Minchin’s most recent poem to appear here was … Everything’s Going out Around Me (April 2013). Taking Over MeBy Steven Minchin Anonymity drove me and only mePushed me past sidewalk jazzAnd smiling couples twirling a corner So my name was mine and only mineNot the block’s or an incantationBooming down the street Because I stopped to […]
Frosty Day
Nancy May’s poem First Date appeared here in April 2013. Frosty DayBy Nancy May cold breathes on a cloudremembering icicleshinder a flying kitehoping a ladybirdbathes in a raindropbefore frostskates over a gravetomorrow
Bad News
Louis Gallo’s most recent poem to appear here was Inheritance, published as part of Contributor Series 10: Silken Rags (December 2011). Bad NewsBy Louis Gallo Papa slouchedOn his piano stoolAnd keyed a nocturneMoist with dis-grace notes.OutsideConstellations of darkening bugsEffused ink into the night air,Bespotting its otherwiseClean, linen-fresh caulk. Finising with a bold D-sharp,Papa smiledAnd I too smiledAs […]
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