Contributor Series 11: On BirthdaysAfter the BirthdayBy Rae SpencerRemember when you sometimes gotExactly what you wanted And it was what you wanted?Remember when the things you wantedWere gettable? And real?Remember six? Or nine?Never at twelve, never at anything teenTwenty happened to discoverHow wanting made the getting betterAnd less likelyThen thirty realized wantingWas another form of […]
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Contributor Series 11: On Birthdays, Birthdays
Contributor Series 11: On BirthdaysBirthdaysBy Harris TobiasMy birthdays stack up like dirty platesAfter a partyPlastic forks and half eaten cakeMake for a tipsy pileAnother year, hooray,I have come this farLog another birthday in the fileIs that one more or one less?Both I guessAnd while I’m glad to have been around to see three scoreAnd tenI can’t […]
Contributor Series 11: On Birthdays, An age of Down’s
Contributor Series 11: On BirthdaysAn age of Down’sBy John Lavan My son has a marvelous habit of tellingstrangers that this very day is his birthdayand they, confused, can’t fathom the truth but trust his nodding smile, congratulate the rascal on reaching a mighty fine agealthough sometimes they do seem surprised by the notion that a boy […]
Contributor Series 11: On Birthdays, Superman’s Birthday
Contributor Series 11: On BirthdaysSuperman’s BirthdayBy Kenneth Karrer I suspended youFrom the floorBy your ankles with just One hand. You insisted, mom would understand. And as I cut the lightThere on your ceiling fan,You said, “I love you dad.” And that,CreatedSuperman. Kenneth Karrer’s most recent poem to appear here was Guitar Poem, published as part of Contributor Series […]
Contributor Series 11: On Birthdays, Reflections on a pretty lady’s garden
Contributor Series 11: On Birthdays, was inspired by a quiet observation of the third anniversary of the launch of vox poetica. It also coincided with another birthday of sorts: the appointment of Patrick Stevens as our Series Editor. The contributors did not make it easy on Patrick; it was a baptism by fire as he […]
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