Category Poetry
Amy K Genova – 3 Poems
“Shut the fuck up!” I say. She’s alphabetizing all my slights. I threaten to rip her cord out of the...
Charles Spruance – 4 Poems
The old bastard couldn’t believe they’d really done it,
left him at the Home in a room the size of a...
Linda Neal – 3 Poems
I will go wherever you go
swim to Antarctica, dive with mermaids
in tropical blue waters where pelicans hover
and fish jump at...
Taylor Hagood-3 Poems
A resisting odor
of pine-tar
soap, a country smell,
pine-paneled.
Where angles mean
little, unsure even
of their structural
function.
Ned Kraft – 3 Poems
Milk men in fiddler’s caps,
pre-dawn clattering glass.
Masters of every back porch and alley
with cream, butter, bloodshot eyes
and blocks of ice
dripping.
John Tessitore – 3 Poems
Here is not home so here is free,
as long as the money holds out,
as long as I am...
Mihan Han – 3 Poems
We meet again after
years of failed relationships
with strangers—you, now
grey, griping about knees
aching, while I’m fat
and gassy,...
John Tustin – 3 Poems
I remember you now
as the mermaid on the rocks
who would have called me to crash
if I had ever dared to...
Paul Smith – 3 Poems
All mountains are pretty much alike
they’re tall
they hurt you
it rains on them
every afternoon
so climb them early
Michael Salcman – 3 Poems
In Bucha, where the flowers grow fat on the graves
and broken bricks and bent metal fill up the street,
young wives...