Five Poems by Sreekala Sivasankaran
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Blank as I am
I retrieve my forest
Off the light
All the light
Black as I am
I am the night
My crying songs return
Without body
A vanambadi*
*Skylark
Love alone
They were...
Poems by Peter Magliocco
2-Faced Shooter
Learning to rhyme with the dawn of in-Hu-Man,
Tasting what revels in itself as a child watches
Me stumbling across the street, late for work,...
Six Poems by Colin Ian Jeffery
Cat
Pussy cat, pussy cat
Serene and relaxed
Sitting on lap
Purring being stroked
Soothing words of love spoken.
Pussy cat, pussy cat
Hunting in the garden
Seeking mice and birds
Creeping through...
Four Poems by Arvilla Fee
Can I Get a Refund?
eyes blurry from lack of sleep,
a toddler up at o’dark thirty,
snot and tears and tug-of-war
over a pair of shoes,
a pop...
Two Poems by Colette RC
Patience
It’s a kind of love, is it not?
How your bottle holds the milk,
how your highchair stands upright and foursquare,
how the playmat accepts the continuous...
Poems by Michael Kfoury
Artistic Integrity
Our wedding album is going to be an album,
a debut L.P because I want to spend your father’s money
on something stupid...
Poems by George Freek
As clouds pass by
As willow leaves fall,
it’s like a kind of grief,
but not a particular grief.
It’s for everything we see,
for the evening
succumbing to a...
Two Poems by Richard Risemberg
(Note: The two narrative poems are linked through a common character, Mr. Carter)
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Kip’s Diner
1. Morning
here, where the universe coalesces
into concrete songs and plate-glass rhapsodies
in...
Poems by James Croal Jackson
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God’s question
to the universe?
Silence
Final Cut
You’ve become a stuntman
boom camera car hurtling toward
(you try not to think about it–
getting older the pain locks
in the physical...
Poems by Duane Anderson
Holiday Blood Drive
Here I am, at a holiday blood drive
sitting at a table on the main floor
of an arena near the front entrance.
Underneath...
