Poems by Chuck Carlise
How We Understand Death
how we understand death
over us; how we do and continue to do
what must be done, so that tomorrow
will...
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 Kalyani Bindu
Ready for closure
I see all the men I have loved laid neatly on a flower bed,
wrapped up in coffin clothes, reeking of places they've...
Poems by Stephen Mead
Tantalus
Double gravity's weight sets on these arms
as they go stretching in spite of it
with veins of marble carving.
For all of eternity...
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 Paul Tristram
There Is No Running Away From This
No, do not ‘Pull it
out of the Fire’
… let it Burn.
Scars are made
from Collision
not Avoidance.
Life Experiences
… Teach...
Poems by T. J. Masluk
Final Things
In the den is an empty chair. Late sun blesses a well-worn
Persian rug. Farther off through weathered pane, I stare
for hours...
Two Poems by Ivan de Monbrison
Prose Poems
1.
A long time ago, before Absence, there was Time, that is the one of Life lost, as all lives are.
But, in the meantime,...
Two Poems by Swati Moheet Agrawal
Prose Poetry
1
What You Missed That Day You Bunked Gazala Teacher’s Class
Miss Gazala explained how to stand still and watch the wind tickle the trees...
Poems by Marc Manganaro
Emerald of your Eyes
the promise
of all good things:
not the deep lived-in greens
of June and July, all fanned out, nor of
late August or September,
the start...
