Category: Poetry
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For No One
Two Poems by Michael Brosnan In can’t-make-this-stuff-up detail, a three-year-old recalls his final hours as a World War II Navy pilot
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Anatomy of a Woman’s Spine
Four poems by Leslie Harrison I applied to the sky for asylum applied for space for air I sought a way out of all the rectangles sought through forests then meadows with their secret dyes their busy insects the sky always there the sky never even close
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Bonding with Bad Mother
Bad mother, bad mother birthday, bad mother poems, bonding with bad mother, Kathleen Taylor, poem, poetryTwo poems by Kathleen Taylor I keep Bad Mother’s head well fed on wedges of black plums and half-smoked cigarettes which she eats right out of my palm.
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The Way We Listened to Music
A Poem by Elizabeth Vignali In the den, lights off, windows open behind beat-up blinds. I sat on brown shag carpet, parted its long strands to find the yellow glue disintegrating between the fibers in sharp crumbles like sugar.
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Pomona’s Prayer
A Poem by Meri Culp Pomona, goddess of garden, of orchards, lead me to your sacred grove, where plum shadows curve, rounding to dusk,
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Seven
A Poem by Cindy St. Onge (for Virginia Woolf) We are ever walking to deep water, heavy with stones around our waists, sunk by the heft of the legend
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A Walk in The Back Lot
A Poem by Elizabeth Poreba Criss-crossed by disturbance in the trees— branches tossed and heaped as if for bonfires of monstrous festivities— and sealed off by snow annealed to shell, the wood road was invisible.
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Litter & Cattails
A Poem by Stephen Wells Brand I recall the chilly pewter sky when we made a kite using litter & cattails