Jeffrey Smyers has published poetry under a pseudonym. He is a photographer who specializes in imagery and color. His photographs have appeared at the prompts page and as cover art for Cassie Premo Steele’s The Pomegranate Papers (2012 unbound CONTENT) and Maxwell Baumbach’s At Age Twenty (forthcoming, unbound CONTENT). ConsiderationBy Jeffrey SmyersYou threw my doubtsBrittle bones that they areOver […]
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Muse’s Ode
Karen Jakubowski’s poem Intro to Blues appeared here in April 2012.Muse’s OdeBy Karen JakubowskiAccolades of appreciation granted to the musewith the scant silver crescent wreathencircling his scalp like my grandmother’s Capuchin monk salt and pepper shakerswhich lived in her china closetgracing us at the Sunday dinner table.Though this particular irreverent muse,grander in staturewith waning posture, slowlystooping toward the […]
History Gone Cold
Jean McLeod’s most recent poem to appear here was Safety (April 2012). History Gone ColdBy Jean McLeodOn a day rumored weatherlessair still as a monk’s prayerthe last morning starholds its breathon the branchof a finely drawn-tree. A milk-blue sunthe color of the old man’s veinscools in the sky. As memory silhouettes his pasthe attempts new realitiesfrom the […]
Robin’s Rhapsody
Ailill’s most recent poem to appear here was The Guests at the Feast (November 2011). Robin’s RhapsodyBy AilillThis melodystirs up spiritsof dawn. The sound of it,celebratingthe innocent blushof newborn sun. A silk road toears asleep.
The Pond
Harris Tobias’ most recent poem to appear here was Trumpets (March 2012). The PondBy Harris TobiasThere is a green furze upon the trees across the pondThe ducks are courting, their ritual old as SpringAn awakening, no doubt about itAn abundant fecundity of budsTadpoles fill the shallowsBeyond them swim the fryThe pond bubbles with abundancePregnant with new lifeSome […]
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