Category: Poetry
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A Theory of Individual Palettes
Two poems by Daniel Bourne A nearby tennis court, / half-moons in the green-mesh net, smiles of Cheshire cats / as the wind blows through their teeth, each mouth an upturned / bowl.
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Letter from a Small Town
Two poems by John Sibley Williams Remember / that Japanese maple your mother / hog-tied & slowly bent over years / into perfection?
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Canticle of Temper
Poetry by J.R. Tappenden sometimes/legends are wrong. sometimes/the unyielding ground fights fiercest.
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Three Fields of Play
Poetry by Claire Eder How motion / had to cut into a surface, laced to danger, / and that was called elegance.
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Free to Roam
Poetry by Carol Deering Two black bears/jaunty & buoyant, burst from the pines/sow first/bounding euphoric across the road/a hundred yards from me.
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“Her” is Herself
Two poems by Jennifer L. Knox I found the truth creeping through / a tower of flowered hat boxes after she’d / passed out.
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Jitter Leg
Poetry by Andrew Wittstadt We jitter when we are waiting for something. / And maybe giggle.
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Out And About
Poetry by Davis McCombs It was always something: a sack / of turnips, a shred of neighborly suspicion, some pretense / trailing into dark ellipsis: I come to get my chain back…so…