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    Boneyard
    By Johnny Payne
    • Feb 22
    • 1 min

    Boneyard

    The more I died, the more I came to life. In quicklime quickened, I returned as breath the way a cut releases from a knife. My blood had...
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    Windmills (Benton County, Indiana)
    By Adam Sedia
    • Feb 22
    • 1 min

    Windmills (Benton County, Indiana)

    The thunder departs. Its withdrawing boom Calls to a beam of angling light That strikes the titan towers through the gloom And sets them...
    5 comments
    The Pilgrimage (St. Margaret's, Binsey, Oxford)
    Fr. Dwight Longenecker
    • Feb 16
    • 1 min

    The Pilgrimage (St. Margaret's, Binsey, Oxford)

    You have to pass through the distressing part of this mostly golden town to get there. You continue—pressing past Jericho and on through...
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    Fresh-Picked Roses
    By David B. Gosselin
    • Feb 10
    • 1 min

    Fresh-Picked Roses

    A rose is lying in the summer mud— The dew still fresh from when it fell last night. A phoenix sinks into a sea of sands— See how the...
    3 comments
    Les Sylphides & Other Poetry
    By John H. B. Martin
    • Feb 10
    • 1 min

    Les Sylphides & Other Poetry

    from a Photograph Flesh longed, at last, to be so impregnated and so inseminated, like a flower is pollinated by the breeze … (Or bees)....
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    Telling the Bees About Journeys
    By Bruce Meyer
    • Feb 4
    • 1 min

    Telling the Bees About Journeys

    They met me coming up the concession to our lane after the bus’s flag stop. They were waiting in the bursts of asters, in milkweed pods...
    1 comment
    The Isle of the Dead
    By Johnny Payne
    • Jan 30
    • 1 min

    The Isle of the Dead

    In 5/8 time, we row toward our demise. Rachmaninoff supplies the oars, the boat the waves, the craggy cliffs, the leaden skies. All we...
    1 comment
    Mediterranean Fortunes & Other Poetry
    By Kevin Blankinship
    • Jan 25
    • 2 min

    Mediterranean Fortunes & Other Poetry

    Mediterranean Fortunes A cold, dry Mistral gallops down the Rhone, reminding of what Dumas wrote: a count, falsely accused, rotting...
    1 comment
    Ancient Dreams
    By David B. Gosselin
    • Jan 19
    • 1 min

    Ancient Dreams

    I saw a young bard, A prince sitting on An ancient divan, Plucking the strings Of his Dorian lyre. His dainty fingers Strummed the gentle...
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    The Gate & Other Poems
    By John Steele
    • Jan 9
    • 2 min

    The Gate & Other Poems

    The Gate It’s not so hard to turn into a gate. To do so, just assume this shape: from kneeling, stretch one leg out to the side, place...
    1 comment
    The New Year
    By Adam Sedia
    • Dec 31, 2021
    • 1 min

    The New Year

    The fields stretch out, bare, icy: __Wide, blank, yet-unetched slates, Tabulae rasae, waiting __The chisel of the Fates, But deep beneath...
    3 comments
    Three Traditional Haikus by Daniel Leach
    By Daniel Leach
    • Dec 28, 2021
    • 1 min

    Three Traditional Haikus by Daniel Leach

    Like ghosts, the buildings Watch the changing earth and sky— Nothing is empty. Though in dark shadow, Gnarled and bent, it seems to rise...
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    Nativity
    Fr. Dwight Longenecker
    • Dec 24, 2021
    • 1 min

    Nativity

    Forget your Christmas cards and little crèche the cutesy donkey, sheep and shepherd boys. Put away the twinkle lights and all that trash;...
    1 comment
    Resurrecting Passion
    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,...
    5 comments
    Incense
    By Adam Sedia
    • Dec 12, 2021
    • 1 min

    Incense

    A hundred tongues of smoke— Translucent wisps, lithe specters— Rise, snaking languidly, Curling, grasping like tendrils At the light they...
    4 comments
    Windows
    By Daniel Leach
    • Dec 12, 2021
    • 1 min

    Windows

    In March, when the shadows are long, I am walking Down the streets of the city I knew long ago, And see as in dreams empty windows there...
    0 comments
    In That Final Moment
    By Caitlin Johnstone
    • Dec 6, 2021
    • 2 min

    In That Final Moment

    When the nukes start flying, when we see the mushroom cloud growing on the horizon, when reality comes crashing down in the most overt...
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    Annunciation
    Fr. Dwight Longenecker
    • Dec 1, 2021
    • 1 min

    Annunciation

    Here in a bright alchemy, history collides and combines with eternal things. The mundane is infused with mystery, and the dust and mud...
    3 comments
    Go Now and Play
    By Janice Canerdy
    • Nov 28, 2021
    • 1 min

    Go Now and Play

    Go out now, children, while you can and play. The time to romp and frolic will not last. Drink Kool-Aid under shade trees while you may....
    1 comment
    The Man Who Never Cries
    By David B. Gosselin
    • Nov 13, 2021
    • 1 min

    The Man Who Never Cries

    The man who never cries is like the ship That never sailed or left the sleepy shores, Who’s never felt the waves of peril whip Against...
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