Terri Kirby Erickson’s poem K&W appeared here in July 2012. Trash ManBy Terri Kirby Erickson Back in the days when everything seemed miraculousand permanent, people kept metal garbage cansin their backyards instead of the plastic ones we wheelevery Wednesday now, to the curb. So when the trashtruck came squealing into the neighborhood, it stoppedon our street and […]
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Insomniacs
Mohana Das’ poem Silence appeared here in July 2012. InsomniacsBy Mohana Das leaves topple one upon one a glacécrescent ebbs overheadwraiths stick their tongues out for drops of sleep infected, annular irises acquiesce
Lou’s Blues
Cristina del Canto’s work has been published in The Battered Suitcase, Fowlpox Press, Blue Lake Review, Ascent Aspirations, Burning Word, Bewildering Stories, and New York University’s Creative Writing Journal. Lou’s BluesBy Cristina del Canto You remind me of the Sea.I, human above waist, fish below,bathe in the blues ofyour eyes, ready for your netto cast me ashore. My […]
The Art of Kissing
Alan Britt’s most recent poem to appear here was The Kiss (October 2011). Alright, so kissing seems to be a big topic for Alan. What of it? The Art of KissingBy Alan Britt Lips like mollusks. Finger bones sifting Mayan ruins. Hair in my mouth, hair on my eyelashes,Atlantic undertow in your kiss. But kisses’ whitegreen tongueslash […]
Columbus Day 10/10/2011
The author of Green Revolver (University of South Carolina Press, 2010, winner of the 2009 SC Poetry Prize), Worthy Evans grew up all over South Carolina and spent formative summers with his grandparents in Alexandria, VA, where he and his mother roamed Northern VA and Washington DC. He uses these places to set narrative and imagist poems, […]
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