Category: Poems

Farid Matuk An American in Dallas I wanted to get embarrassed              so much             …

Nicole Mauro Osprey I. My son–in the brookweed Innocent–to the extent that a boy caught between a young man and an old child could be–these …

Michelle McMahon The Solar Eclipse in Seventh Grade (a cut-up) Memories              I have seventh grade memories, flashbacks to summers …

Catherine Meng Two Poems Friendship Poem Makes Friends With the Definition Of       1.  A person whom one knows, likes, and trusts. [cats, …

KL Monahan Knock-knock Lemonade Listen, granddaughter. When I was young there were no dreams. Nighttime was stretched out on the floor and asleep like Orange …

Ronald Palmer All The Family Stories I’m Trying Not To Tell Aunt Trudy fell asleep with a cigarette in bed           …

Maricela Ramirez The Construction Years A grandfather with mountain hands gets an ear stuck in the 1920s.  This just in: The world is an apartment …

Jessica Reed Two Poems Briophobia I used to have a fear of feet.  The feet my mother bade me rub were fungus-nailed with yellow crust …

Jeff Harrison Appius Claudius Prevented From Ascension By 160 Virginias * Virginia Virginia Virginia Virginia Virginia Virginia Virginia Virginia Virginia Virginia Virginia Virginia Virginia Virginia …

Stephanie Young 2 Poems Weather with You There were thoughts I couldn’t bear to have unless my eyes were covered with ice. Then, in the …

Rebecca Hazelton Write Yellow the yolk like expectation; write separation as metaphor.  Two can be more useful than one. Write divide.  Write discrete.  Write an …

Tim Yu 2 Poems Elephant & Castle [13] Don wimple and cue hobo: icing on the stammered brook. Huckster or don’t be nodding.  The hill-gate’s …