Category: Poems

Aaron Crippen Two Poems Bottled Stars Pink, lilac, blood brown. Every flower, on every stem, is wilted. But you, Violet, blaze. Wilt nips your tips …

Christopher Barnes Two Poems Lager Advert True-to-type tips of millet Are momentous. Point blank into tussocks We surround the billabong By the stoop of fleabane …

Peter Davis POEM ADDRESSING CONTEMPORAY POETS WHO I’VE BEEN JEALOUS OF ON MORE THAN ONE OCCASION I’m really sorry about this and embarrassed. I’m only …

Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal Two Poems Chihuahua I ask my friend if she has ever been to Chihuahua? She doesn’t respond as if I’m speaking an …

Susan Denning Sight Comes to Owls Slowly They leave their nests and their foreheads ache. They think the day wants to hurt them. So when …

Rong Lee From an Earlobe My father shades the uneaten oranges with his thigh Makes strong tea from seaweed ember tags Flagging, the shaded lips …

Denise Dooley Adda We women empty weak mouths loose our didnots to shrill              all round Adda, see we let …

Joseph O. Legaspi The universe has no edge or center. Yet we who traverse in it do so along perimeters, always, man-made, conceptual and defined.  …

Laurie Duggan One-Way Ticket what I have written I have lost what’s recorded so much paper and celluloid the 1974 of desire moves through its …

Cassie Lewis Intro to Postcard Poems, February 2007 Editor’s note:  The poems in this section are postcards that were exchanged in February 2007 among a …

Ricky Garni Pillow I read a book shaped like a pillow the color of a cherry When people say “You look like a cherry” I …

Tim Yu Six Postcard Poems 2/8/07Boo Hoo Bunny I am a boo hoo bunny. Symmetrical tears are poised like rouge beneath my off- kilter eyes. …