Kristina Sheehan is an itinerant recluse, Vonnegut enthusiast, and aspiring wordplay artiste. The thorns turn inwardBy Kristina Sheehan on a ribbon of twilight you descend into the garden armed with cadmium, mercury, and lead: rotting citrus thickens the gray you stumble down a ravine whose footholds have disintegrated the bitter wind whips your bitter lips […]
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Broken
Jane Audrey’s most recent poem to appear here was The Journey (October 2010). BrokenBy Jane Audrey I’ve tried anger and resentment on for size, made an honest attempt at “don’t give a damn,” but my throat still burns in pain my cheeks flushed with tears each time my thoughts wander to you. You don’t want me. You’ve […]
Before dawn
Lou Pugliese’s most recent poem to appear here was You Don’t Know Me, published as part of Contributor Series 9: If Men Had Ears in July 2011. Before dawnBy Lou Pugliese Awake before the roosters I’m immersed in what the sleeping world can’t imagine It’s a special aura in the dark before dawn Rain clouds I […]
Pool Slide
Stan Galloway’s most recent poem to appear here was Pin Dot (August 2011). His poem Gazers (a collaboration with Julie Ellinger Hunt) was one of vox poetica’s 2011 nominations for Best of the Net. Pool SlideBy Stan Galloway The slide reflected in the water, like Monet on Van Gogh, reminds that what we see and what is real and […]
Fall’s Ashes
Rob Krabbe’s most recent poem to appear here was Undone (July 2011). Are you somewhere in autumn yet? Fall’s Ashes By Rob Krabbe When I sit on my porch in my fall rocking chair and I look to the bright heavens, I see pages of summer poems flitting down from the sky. Flames of orange and red, […]
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