By Caitlin JohnstoneMay 196 minI MarvelI 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 Richard KatrovasMay 121 minA 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...
By Mathew EhretMay 1122 minEdgar Allan Poe’s Metaphysics: Rediscovering “Eureka”"What I here propound is true: — therefore it cannot die: — or if by any means it be now trodden down so that it die, it will “rise again...
By Daniel LeachApr 161 minEasterHere, where winter never really comes, How so, this vast profusion of wildflowers, These waves of jasmine sweet upon the wind, This hum...
By Caitlin JohnstoneApr 151 minFingers of LightFingers of light peel away the hiddenness of badge-wearing sadists and Apache helicopter war crimes. Fingers of light peel away the lies...
By Daniel LeachApr 16 minThe Devil at WoodstockI was a mere sixteen that Summer day We all piled in a beat-up car and drove To Woodstock, or someplace we had been told That a great...
By Bruce MeyerFeb 41 minTelling the Bees About JourneysThey 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...
By Caitlin JohnstoneDec 6, 20212 minIn That Final MomentWhen the nukes start flying, when we see the mushroom cloud growing on the horizon, when reality comes crashing down in the most overt...
By Richard KatrovasSep 17, 20211 minA Riff on Romantic LoveI do not need you like I do not need To read, or weep, or stew in nightly news. I do not need you like I do not need To whistle past the...
By Caitlin JohnstoneSep 2, 20212 minA Blessing for EveryoneMay all of your illusions be shattered beyond your ability to reassemble them. May you learn quickly from your failures and successes....
By Gabriella MillerAug 11, 20212 minTrue BlueThe color before the sun rises, due east, as the horizon is painted with streaks from heaven like a stained brush across the celestial...
By James A. TweedieJul 16, 20212 minDaphne and Apollo“O foolish Cupid,” fair Apollo mocked. “To think that you, a wanton boy, should dare To think yourself the equal to a man Of arms, or...
By Caitlin JohnstoneJun 12, 20211 minWelcome to Planet EarthWelcome to Planet Earth, where books written by dead men tell the living how to live. Where children who do not know how to live teach...
By Caitlin JohnstoneApr 11, 20212 minAspire to Greatness (The Real Kind)Aspire to greatness, but not the kind they teach you about in school. Not the kind where you can all be astronauts and presidents when...
By Terry NortonSep 4, 20203 minCassandraBoth beauty and intelligence were mine. But to what end? Of all the nineteen who Sprang from my mother’s fecund thighs, of daughters I...
By David B. GosselinAug 31, 20201 minAn Andalusian DreamOver the sultry seas and snowy peaks, A rich and glowing sun appears, Creeping from out the craggy recesses And pouring through the...
By Bruce MeyerAug 17, 20201 minTelling the Bees About FriendshipAs boys, we collected fireflies in Mason jars on summer nights, hoping as we waited for dreams in small rooms the shadows filled we’d be...
By Bruce MeyerJun 22, 20201 minTelling the Bees About LoveHer head was golden as honey in the morning light, soft-haired with a halo shimmering as if the dawn of a better day. Her breath reminded...
By Bruce MeyerMar 23, 20202 minDragon Wings & Other PoetryAs close as I could get to the water, I took off my leather sandals to let my toes dangle in the reeds. I lay back with my head on a...
By James A. TweedieJun 4, 20181 minA Grief ObservedIn dactylic hexameter Turgid the sea as it billows and foams in the face of the tempest. Wind-lifted wave-crests explode into diamonds...