Depths
Once more home is a strange place: by the ocean a big house now, and the small houses are memories, once live images, vacant thoughts...
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By Rowland Hughes
- Feb 20
- 1 min
Throwing Away the Wind
It was the best kite we’d made, at least the only one that flew. An old tablecloth, needle and thread, bamboo canes, string and folded...
By Stewart Burke
- Feb 17
- 2 min
Silver Salver, Golden Chalice
Things first gazed upon most define our sight. Rapt eyes are drawn to the sensuous cleft In a musk melon of one slice bereft, Betraying...
By Evan Schmitt
- Feb 14
- 1 min
Chicago
Upon the platform, boots caked in black ice, a cloying gesture, stand there on the salt. I dare not stray, confess my only vice: your...
By Caitlin Johnstone
- Feb 6
- 2 min
Beneath by Caitlin Johnstone
Don't let the fraudulence of this civilization eclipse the supernova of authenticity hidden just beneath that thin membrane. Don't let...
By Mid Walsh
- Feb 1
- 1 min
Fallen Crystal & Other Poetry
That crystal pointed flakes of snow could ever dull, defies the mind. But it is so, if one can find an avalanche. It is a fact: wind...
By Gary Inbinder
- Jan 17
- 1 min
Et in Arcadia Ego
Here we lie in our bed of stone beneath a mild sky. Nicely tucked in. You and I. Did we go peacefully beneath the azure sky? Perhaps. But...
By Daniel Leach
- Jan 16
- 1 min
Dog Dreams
Sometimes I imagine that I am still young, Like an old sleeping dog in his dreams; His legs move, and he pants at the air with his...
By Johnny Payne
- Jan 13
- 1 min
Water Spell & Other Poems
Water Spell A crocodile waits on the far sandbank. I wade through waves, while my beloved casts a water spell, a verbal shield to flank...
By John Martin
- Jan 6
- 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 Caitlin Johnstone
- Dec 31, 2022
- 2 min
A Blessing for Everyone
May all of your illusions be shattered beyond your ability to reassemble them. May you learn quickly from your failures and successes....
By David B. Gosselin
- Dec 28, 2022
- 1 min
Deep Dreams
I dreamt a dream so deep last night, I felt I dreamt a thousand years; I felt I’d lived a thousand dreams— Dreams bearing not a single...
Fr. Dwight Longenecker
- Dec 23, 2022
- 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;...
By Rowland Hughes
- Dec 19, 2022
- 2 min
A Valley Funeral
Men, uncomfortably well dressed in funeral black, collars frayed, starched white, old shoes thick with polish. A woman pours tea into...
By Dean Z. Douthat
- Dec 15, 2022
- 1 min
To a Doric Column
Dam of Nereids, I cannot see your face, Poseidon's love gives your girls their haven. You tower high, your queenly will and grace Hold up...
By Eleanor Aspen
- Dec 10, 2022
- 2 min
Sestina of Seasons
Looking upwards at the clear summer sky I see all the trees have green leaves The same color as the grass on the ground. The sun shines...
By John Martin
- Dec 7, 2022
- 1 min
Nudism in England
The sun's a prude: it turns its eye away at night, and only looks on us by day to see if we are doing what we should. Yet how it blushes...
By Ryan P. Tunison
- Dec 2, 2022
- 1 min
Some Lines After Keats' Lamia & Other Poems
After Some Lines in Keats’ Lamia How poets must be mad to trace the line Of woman, whomsoever holds their liking, To faeries’ influence,...
By Stewart Burke
- Nov 19, 2022
- 1 min
The Garden of Lonely Pleasure
Within this garden of lonely pleasure the living waters whisper your name. Iris and lilac—now wild, but once tame— herald Spring’s...
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