Category: Poems

TC Tolbert Complimentary Yesterday the birds were shaped like paperweights and we did little to protect them. It is the endurance of skipping stones that …

Marie Larson Three Poems from Leviathan the blue                   or gold                …

Kevin Prufer The Mean Boys The mean boys beneath the Exxon light off Route 64 had quick eyes and pockets full of dollar bills, like …

Gautam Verma Cat cat catamarans down the Orinoco river cat cataracts down Victoria falls cat catapults itself from table to table (fort to fort) cat …

Diana Magallón and Jeff Crouch   return to SHAMPOO 33

Leigh Radtke at max ebb a paddle toward Yellow Bluff a point that juts out into SF Bay seals      bob up and down …

Rhyming poems about love Dana Ward Roseland SO, apostate meet-cute with feelings. Cheered by a well-spring of wood-fired ovens waiting on sumptuous derelict longing enfeebled …

Hassan Melehy Frontier Ditty Is there a navel reserve below your pectoral fins? Your voracious palm frond’s in the way— Studs are added to your …

Ian M. McCarty from I Woke Up Early the Morning After the End of the World A’s insomnia is temporarily ended by the temporary end …

rob mclennan Two Poems I want to sleep in the runcible spoon(after Michael Redhill a life lived on a lake, pale as silt never settled …

Michael Montlack The Hummus Sexual wears sandals but no Birkenstocks, knowing his wardrobe already too closely resembles Peppermint Patty’s. His vintage shirts: garage-sale bargains (not …

Anjali Khosla Mullany Damp House In the morning I wake, ripe with condensation, to the trumpetedness of elephants, non-native & extinct.  Long-necked cranes?  What a …