By Ed Ahern It Had That Swing My mother spent evenings listening to records.Years of evenings.78’s and 33’s, and only big band swing.All named after the band leader. The bands are largely forgotten now,but there were Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey,Woody Herman and Harry James,Benny Goodman and Glenn Miller. My mother, widowed and jobless,Played the music … Continue reading It Had That Swing and Words for a Full-fledged Kestrel
Loss Through Acquisition
By Russ Bickerstaff She was trying to look like an insomniac, but she wasn’t doing a terribly good of it. The overall feeling of life beyond the veil of sleep was lost to her, which would have been fine if it weren’t for the fact that it was her job to look convincingly tired. It … Continue reading Loss Through Acquisition
Self-Concert and Other Poems
By James Croal Jackson Self-Concert The guitar hides from the sun– a shadow of someone familiar singing. To bare my snake skin wrapped around this temporary home. Green of smile. Holes of jeans. Sweat of beetles. Let me keep a tambourine nearby. I want to make sound in the spotlight. Self-Confidence (2/26/2019) I want to … Continue reading Self-Concert and Other Poems
Piggeldy and Other Poems
By Stephen Kingsnorth Piggeldy Higgeldy history my herd,cottages hugging by the sward-play place for boys, both buckler, shield,of nightly virtue, on the verge -grown up now to framed panes cleaning,climbing ginnel rooves, swear-slating,complaining of the price of nails;crossword streets, by square set laid outare unknown strangers to our air.Above, the blacksmith, bellow noised,barging the lad … Continue reading Piggeldy and Other Poems
Mr. Bear and Other Poems
By Alex Andy Phuong Mr. Bear Mr. Teddy Bear He is big and soft and good Much more than a toy Treasure Treasure this moment Express gratitude The Present moment The profound gift Of life In spite of the bleakness That characterizes modernity Reality reveals That there is so much beauty In the world … Continue reading Mr. Bear and Other Poems
Changeling II and Other Poems
By C.G. Nelson Changeling II There is a shift in me— One I can hardly explain. I’m a different person Than I used to be. I don’t know What to tell you. How can I tell you Anything when I don’t even know The how or why or Even the when Of the thing. … Continue reading Changeling II and Other Poems
Brewing Success From Disaster and Other Poems
By Vishnu B. Unnithan Brewing Success from Disaster I should be excited, like waiting to meet my lover, since each day presents opportunities galore. However, anxiety is my daily chore. It rattles me to the core. I analyse, plan and think some more. I should be sparkling with anticipation, like waiting to meet … Continue reading Brewing Success From Disaster and Other Poems
Words
By Deeksha Makhija I wonder what happens to words when they are left unread all their lives? Do they sob in tears while remembering the tears of their creators? Do they talk? What happens to all those books that are kept at the end of a room full of books' stacks? Do they smell … Continue reading Words
What Poets Do and Solstice Part 1
What Do Poets Do what do poets do when they rise up in the light of morning from the floor of the sanctuary of illusion and wipe with a coat sleeve an open wound from which the life of history drains and shake the sweat of saturation from behind a brow, a paper wall when … Continue reading What Poets Do and Solstice Part 1
Why I Write
By Alex Andy Phuong Why do people write? What is the point of worrying about events, places, and characters created through the human imagination? They are not even real! Some people major in English while in college because they are bookworms. Sometimes they could be very similar to Belle from Beauty and the Beast, and … Continue reading Why I Write
Academy of the Heart And Mind 