Contributor Series 4: Aspects of the Elephant Failed Romance By Stan Galloway The little boy offers his best fire truck and invites her to the box while she sees the castles that he has not built and the prince who has not ridden to the rescue. He says he likes the way she shows the […]

Contributor Series 4: Aspects of the Elephant To A Past Love By Jean M Hendrickson I no longer measure past woes; have stopped setting snares to catch tiny wrongs, flowers fill my yard. The closer you come the faster my heart beats, I’ll run to greet you beneath a blue moon arms filled with blossoms […]

Contributor Series 4: Aspects of the Elephant Words on a Wire By Tim VanSant We are words on a wire– substance [of a sort] –but no body. So how can our hearts touch? And yet how could they not? Tim VanSant’s poem Reach appeared at vox poetica in 2010.

Contributor Series 4: Aspects of the Elephant Now that I know By Karen Schindler it’s hard to get what you want til you know what it is now that I know what I have always desired I can see myself shifting toward getting it funny how that happens                                                 Always look at me like you […]

Contributor Series 4: Aspects of the Elephant My Companion Piece By Bryan Borland At the funeral they called him my companion, which made him sound less like my husband than my pet, my friend with the furry belly I instinctively rub. These two weeks he’s been the guide dog to my blindness. I’d have run […]