Elegy and Sequence for T.D.
Dark Current: for Terry, Who Died on May 9, 2023 Nuestras vidas son los ríos que van a dar en la mar que es la muerte... I Today the...
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By Breana Harris
- Apr 6
- 2 min
Sestina for my Father
My father could make a concentration camp into a game, but the game would be his own calamitous mood swings. Dining room table...
By Michael R. Burch
- Mar 1
- 1 min
Where Does the Butterfly Go?
for the children of the Holocaust and the Nakba Where does the butterfly go ... when lightning rails ... when thunder howls ... when...
By Benjamin Lukey
- Feb 22
- 2 min
How I Got This Way & Visitation
How I Got This Way Uneasy in the company of friends, I felt no better sitting by myself; Improving means had not improved the ends. So I...
By Jeffrey Essmann
- Feb 22
- 1 min
The Snowdrop
One winter day I wandered Alone inside a park With thoughts of how I’d squandered The light in me for dark In wayward years gone by. And...
By David B. Gosselin
- Feb 17
- 3 min
Journey Through Mountains: The Waterfall, Mastery and Details
The Waterfall “So noisy are the towns and villages,” remarked The sage as he and his young pupil made Their way across the bustling...
By Martin McCarthy
- Feb 14
- 2 min
Ebb Tide
Here, is where I am, and where I’ve come to see you, while the light remains, and there is time enough to embrace it; here, where the ebb...
By Lucius Falkland
- Feb 14
- 2 min
Rosehip, Wilder Creatures & Other Poetry
Wilder Creatures They say that these people have unusual features Thin foreheads, small chins, narrow faces. Compared to the “normies”...
By Daniel Leach
- Feb 9
- 1 min
"It"
It plays upon the glowing sunset boughs, When shadows have enveloped all below, And distant, other-worldly thoughts arouse A passion in...
By John H. B. Martin
- Feb 3
- 1 min
Landing
As soft as snowdrops snowflakes settle; more soft than petals, gently fall… Less shy than snowdrops snow drops all its inhibitions… Cold...
By Sarah Spivey
- Jan 29
- 2 min
Aoibh’s Children & Contrary Silence
Aoibh’s Children in Expectation There is a swan-crossed sea where exiles flew to die, where grey waves wash the greyer shore in ponderous...
By Jesse Keith Butler
- Jan 23
- 1 min
Immersion
After T. S. Eliot Yes— We’ve lingered in the chambers of this sea- slag-crusted wreckage—derelict, depth-raked, decrepit. We grasp up...
By Mark Arvid White
- Jan 18
- 1 min
The Choices of Daedalus
Near dawn he turns and clings to me, My fingers poised on golden curls, A thousand steps we have ascended To this place above the sea....
By Glenn Wright
- Jan 13
- 4 min
Beyond the Lines: “Design” by Robert Frost
Encounters with the divine are rare enough that they invariably catch us by surprise. It can seem that God, like the Wizard of Oz hiding...
By Caitlin Johnstone
- Jan 7
- 6 min
I Marvel
I marvel at the way elderly couples can walk together with such delicateness that it’s like they’re holding the fate of the world in...
By Bob Zisk
- Jan 7
- 2 min
Night Music & Other Poetry
Night Music Tonight, in these pine scented woods, what silence, As still as freshly fallen snow, as soft As fur on a bent branch, as...
By Burl Horniacheck
- Dec 22, 2023
- 1 min
A Song & Poetry
Poetry Poems are my dearest friends. Naught else on earth so well can mend The lonely mind, dark failure’s smart, Religion’s doubt,...
By Caitlin Clase
- Dec 15, 2023
- 2 min
The Dryad & Other Poetry
The Dryad In a bloom of midmay light, Bright boon of day long lain Away, long hidden behind A crumpled grey curtain Of rain and fog and...
By Martin McCarthy
- Jun 9, 2022
- 2 min
Forever & Other Poems
Forever We are way out here on the edge of town, and a breathless, gushing ocean clings to your tidewash of shards. We are way out here...
By Michael R. Burch
- Dec 19, 2021
- 1 min
Resurrecting Passion
Last night, while dawn was far away and rain streaked gray, tumescent skies, as thunder boomed and lightning railed, I conjured words,...
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