Category: Poems

Michael Rothenberg August 10, 2002 Anything can break, anything can be repaired. Just relax, I tell myself, worrying about new scratches in things, ashes of …

Rochelle Hope Mehr The Misspelled Word Another perfect metaphor: I can’t spell “maneuver.” My mother caught the error in the poem. My hands are numb …

W.B. Keckler Being Marjorie Perloff     I too would like Marjorie Perloff’s approval on a poetry mortgage.  But then I would have to read …

Suzy Saul Full The moon wades in my window, implacable, indifferent to itself, following its own path in dark deepening from ankles to thighs — …

Murray Moulding from Now Vibrato Why carbon date a dreambug? She’s a program with her doctress boiled in latigo for that Nazi mouthful Ozium never …

Lewis LaCook from The Sky 11. Jean Cocteau likes grapes.  Likes the thought of grapes, their form in his mind somehow congruent with salves, or …

Willie Smith Back Home We sit crosslegged in the tub. We’ve been three days sailing on the Sound and are pleasantly exhausted. I soap my …

Daniel Nester Notes On An Unadorned Nightafter Rene Char Let’s agree that the night is a blank canvas, a station break, a bridge of a …

Phoebe Sayornis Eden Eye c a b.  Do u c the b? It seams 2 b lost.  Know other explanation 4 buzzing from word 2 …

Glen Sorestad In the Musee de Beaux Arts, Montreal Aha, van Dongen, so we meet again! I believe the last time was in some small …

Hazel Smith Writing Styles Arbitrarily she threw words down and swept them into foreign combinations.  From alien states she longed to draw new maps. Systematically …

Mark Young Two Poems Bald Eagle Have you ever listened to the way most drummers sing?  So regular, so pedestrian, like a train captive to …