Fischer Lawrence writes science curriculum and serious games in real life. Who says nature poems are tame? The Mating of the Cooper’s Hawk (For Wendy, who saw it all) By Fischer Lawrence You brought the body to your love. A ‘munk, five stripes, Before you:    Carefully stripped its fur    Naked    It lay, […]

Ivy Page’s poem Best Beloved appeared here in October. This poem is very different in theme, but Ivy displays a gift for imagery in this one as well. Mile 2 By Ivy Page I walk miles to bleed on that lawn, to create a chain of larkspur to press between the pages of a Bible I only […]

Gary C Beck’s poem Law of Attraction appeared here in March of 2010. This poem will be familiar to many readers, not in phrasing (it’s part of Gary’s unpublished collection The Remission of Order), but in subject. Poetry By Gary C Beck Poet’s words, you crouch in tall grass, fearful rabbits hiding. I sniff, bide patiently, storm explosions […]

This poem shows how fine is the line between remembering and imagining. My Mother in Maine By Nijla Mumin Every time my mother cooks fish, she tells stories– how her mother preferred sole to flounder, grandma’s hands caked with cornmeal as Mahalia Jackson testified through song. Catfish was a cardinal sin, too slimy but snapper […]