Category: Poems

Haley Larson Two Poems From Charles Bridge Picture this – a Tuesday snapshot of myself, alone on a curb of what was surely Wenceslas Square. …

Bobbi Lurie I married an open field and treated it widely This open field was wild with horses who couldn’t All the running and rarely …

Tim Shaner Two Pieces The Institute of Loafing The Institute of Loafing began accidentally. It was not planned. It came to me through the act …

Alexandra Mattraw Two Poems Casino Proposals Upsweep sun stubble.  Pardon language that turns back on itself.  From inside, gamble red categories laid open.  Draw a …

Suzanne Stein Everything’s Fine in a remote— garden a structure. One enters. One locates oneself between layers of one’s location: An intricate composition of interior …

Stephanie Young             with Ron Palmer       return to SHAMPOO 38

Brian Ang from Pre-Symbolic Onset of mechanical reproduction transformation.  Haphazard administrative visible imagined incorporated morphology aesthetics.  Metaphysical greasepaint.  Generations of science theory nature pleasure process …

Christopher Barnes Purchasing Inside Toby bazaared at Ikea. Novelty Caesium ceiling spotlights, an upholstered cousinly eyeful. A Fler dish candles a summer cloud on tempered …

Amanda DeMarco It Was a Lot of ‘He Said, She Said.’ The child fell in love with an inflatable rubber donkey, when they embraced the …

Eric Ellingsen The people called Endless – 1 We called these things ages. Called them all-nighters. I called all night. You called back. We called …

Allison Elliott Roommates So not to disturb Sara, our insomniac, finally asleep, I quietly skimmed the pages of a magazine, looking at heads. I waited …

Jessica Guzman Two Poems Ash You’re the first line of a “Dear John” letter, ink smeared by magnolia sweat and paper cuts. I want to …