Charlotte Rauner’s most recent poem to appear here was Dazzle me snow (July 2011). When I watch as you walkBy Charlotte Rauner When I watch as you walk centimeters away, I stumble upon the words you blindly spoke and the ones I barely listened to. And I imagine, how does she dream, with her cloudless head? But […]
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Miracle Whip
Nate Spears’ poem So Far Away appeared here in July 2011. While you await the launch of his second full-length poetry collection (this winter from unbound CONTENT!), check out his first full-length collection of poetry, Inspiration 2 Smile! Miracle WhipBy Nate Spears Free from mason hands Hard labor isn’t the way If it isn’t necessary Evil roots sprout […]
Common Love Poem
Alan Britt’s most recent poem to appear here was Blues, published as part of Contributor Series 9: If Men Had Ears. Common Love PoemBy Alan Britt Chili pepper … torso twisted into a 5,000-year-old lover’s frozen bones. The tongue of a tropical disturbance teases jasmine below bedroom jalousies. The quarter-moon sickles her way through pine needles […]
Under milky fingernails
Emma Lovell’s poem Pick me appeared here in May 2011. Under milky fingernailsBy Emma Lovell It was still warm and gold tinted the day I almost kissed your sunlit ear. Then followed you through hissing leaves and simmering bark, and felt the beautiful smack of your ponytail as you turned your head to stare at an […]
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Janis Lull is professor emerita at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. She has published scholarship on Shakespeare and other English Renaissance poets. Her own poems have appeared at The Little Magazine, Beloit Poetry Journal, Poetry Northwest, Epoch, and elsewhere. More recently her work has been published in Ruminate, Nibble, Perceptions Literary Magazine, and Right Hand Pointing. She also writes reviews for […]
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