Nate Spears’ most recent poem to appear here was Oz (March 2012). My EverythingBy Nate Spears Some things in lifeYou can’t explainBut you notice immediatelyWhen they go missing. Some things in lifeYou know are rightEven when they go leftYou know they’ll be backBetter than ever. Those things become your everythingMy everything is youThe one thing in this […]
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MRI
Jean McLeod’s most recent poem to appear here was History Gone Cold (May 2012). MRIBy Jean McLeod In sweaty dreamsshale shadowsspread inexorably,a mica fieldover crenellated spongeconfirmedin gray and black.
Winds
Murray Dunlap’s most recent poem to appear here was Love (June 2012) WindsBy Murray Dunlap In a cardiac version of lifeThere are many things to believe inSurely my heart stopped when a man ran red and almost killed meBut I don’t knowI know nothingBut painAnd the quiet misery of starting a life overAnd learning that I am […]
Durable good
R Martin Basden’s most recent poem to appear here was Another Morning(January 2012).Durable goodBy R Martin Basden They move among us, unselfish.They take little, give much,do their job with minimum maintenance, time after time,regardless of interruption or delay,in spite of objection or critique,underappreciated, ignored, perhaps slandered. They work, they care, they love,When love is the only […]
You Knew Me When
Bobbie Troy’s most recent poem to appear here was This is poetry (May 2012). You Knew Me WhenBy Bobbie Troy you can say that you knew me when our world was whole and each day was the beginning of a fairy tale and each night was a happy ending you can say that you knew me when […]
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