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    Three Traditional Haikus by Daniel Leach
    By Daniel Leach
    • 1 day ago
    • 1 min

    Three Traditional Haikus by Daniel Leach

    The branch seems to float In sky’s image in water— Both are reflections. The desolation, To one with a quiet soul, Is like a refuge. Like...
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    Three Stages Squared
    By Jeffrey Essmann
    • 1 day ago
    • 2 min

    Three Stages Squared

    After Christina Rossetti’s "Three Stages" 1. I fastened all my wishes on a star, Although the physics that it satisfied Presumed the...
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    Late Imperial Woes
    By Craig Dobson
    • 3 days ago
    • 2 min

    Late Imperial Woes

    I anxiously wait by the phone, My favourite villa’s up in smoke, Barbarians are nearing Rome. I’m rich in titles, yet I’m broke. Great...
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    Falling Through Water & Mountain Stream
    By Rowland Hughes
    • 6 days ago
    • 2 min

    Falling Through Water & Mountain Stream

    Falling Through Water Your eyes face a fading light, searching the sway of a young man whose footprints are shadows on a dark sea. You...
    10 comments
    Trois Matelots du Port de Brest
    By Johnny Payne
    • Jun 13
    • 2 min

    Trois Matelots du Port de Brest

    Three ships sailed on a sea’s soft swell, a small sea, but one full of wrecks. In those wrecks, drowned men, their spent bones and from...
    1 comment
    Forever & Other Poems
    By Martin McCarthy
    • Jun 9
    • 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...
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    I Marvel
    By Caitlin Johnstone
    • Jun 2
    • 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...
    15 comments
    Danaë
    John H. B. Martin
    • Jun 2
    • 1 min

    Danaë

    We have been promised gold like this before … But, now it glows on trees, we can't ignore it. One day we'll harvest it … Or mine it,...
    2 comments
    Spring Lilacs
    By David B. Gosselin
    • May 30
    • 2 min

    Spring Lilacs

    I. One morning, I found Lilacs in the rain: The sun had fled, the birds had stopped singing, The skies were dimmed by gaunt and graying...
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    Ode: Spring Mourning
    By Daniel Leach
    • May 27
    • 2 min

    Ode: Spring Mourning

    The first soft days of springtime greet my eyes Like a young girl’s face, smiling fresh and clean, The sunlight falls, like hope, from...
    4 comments
    Clay Pots
    By James A. Tweedie
    • May 24
    • 1 min

    Clay Pots

    And yet, O Lord, you are our Father. We are the clay and you are the Potter. We are all formed by your hand. Isaiah 64:8 God takes a ball...
    3 comments
    Looking Down
    By Daniel Platt
    • May 18
    • 1 min

    Looking Down

    Behold, she dangles, helpless in the sky, Affrighted by the curving earth below: It beckons so seductively, as though 'Twould be a...
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    Restoring Pontormo’s Veronica
    By Lily Prigioniero
    • May 15
    • 2 min

    Restoring Pontormo’s Veronica

    I swear he breathed down my neck. I smelled his pungent manhood, grimy crusts on his pant thighs he was no faint knight— a madman in...
    2 comments
    A Riff on Abstraction
    By Richard Katrovas
    • May 12
    • 1 min

    A Riff on Abstraction

    "Evil is the systematic substitution of the abstract for the concrete." —Sartre As in “concrete” as well as “abstract,” and though I...
    6 comments
    Natural Bridge Suite
    By Johnny Payne
    • May 11
    • 2 min

    Natural Bridge Suite

    I Steep path, up the limestone stair, sediment and sand hardened to bedrock, yet porous. Groundwater flowing through, that reinvents the...
    10 comments
    Angels & Other Poetry
    By Jeffrey Essmann
    • May 7
    • 1 min

    Angels & Other Poetry

    Angels Perhaps it’s simply age that makes it hard To recognize the world as someplace where An inner spirit once itself declared, A...
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    Ebb Tide
    By Michael R. Burch
    • May 4
    • 1 min

    Ebb Tide

    Massive, gray, these leaden waves bear their unchanging burden— the sameness of each day to day while the wind seems to struggle to say...
    5 comments
    Crocuses
    By Adam Sedia
    • May 1
    • 1 min

    Crocuses

    You meekly poke your purple heads Through stubborn clumps of snow That yet persist in fallow beds Though balmy breezes blow; First to...
    1 comment
    The Spanish Knight — A Historical Ballad
    By David B. Gosselin
    • Apr 26
    • 2 min

    The Spanish Knight — A Historical Ballad

    Wa le ghalib il Allah (God is the only victor) —Muhamed Ibn-l-Ahmar, founder of the Alhambra Palace He rode across the star-engulfed...
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    Radiance
    By Daniel Platt
    • Apr 19
    • 1 min

    Radiance

    A half-life passes, others come and go, But no clairvoyant eyes can find the day When what we’ve shared will finally ebb away. Our...
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