The Visitor The Falcon Flaps Across The Yard With Its Strong Wings And Graceful Feathers Then Perches In A Maple. Doctor Appointment Sitting In The Waiting Room Programmed By The TV Names Ticking Like The Clock Ten O Clock Sharp The Art Of Good Medicine.
The Untranslatable: Zhaghzhagh
By Thomas Page The Untranslatable This is a series of poems of words that do not directly translate into English. I have tried to capture the essence of the word in a poem. Standing in a post open to the cold With the frosty air seeping in like the adder Circling my gloved hand poisoning … Continue reading The Untranslatable: Zhaghzhagh
Night’s Wedding
By Gina Elliott The sun burned in envy, when the night wed the moon, adorned in stars, with the Milky Way her bridal gown, A hush enveloped her … Continue reading Night’s Wedding
Plato-Bible Eclectic Mixed Metaphors
By Gerard Sarnat Half-Israeli grandson Liav and I throw ourselves into post Chanukah truck dumpty dumpties, dreidel mini-footballs then make his yofi* new train station bubble with electric soap suds deep deep inside Coachie’s man cave which at times tends to be awash in unkosher sour squashed Domino pizza boxes among leaning towers’ Joseph Coat-Of-Many-Colors … Continue reading Plato-Bible Eclectic Mixed Metaphors
Alphabets: Omicron
By Thomas Page I can’t imagine The world so small that It can be placed on A grain of rice and Sold in a beachfront Souvenir shop next To hermit crabs and Obscene tees hung like College banners and Beer signs down the road Mixed with heat and sand And sunburned shoulders Bathed in aloe … Continue reading Alphabets: Omicron
It’s Come to This
By Dianne Moritz Once she sipped daiquiris by the pool high above Hollywood gazing down at the vista. Eucalyptus shade cooled her soft, tanned skin as she kissed his lips under the California sun. There he made promises to love her forever and ever and ever until the twelfth of never. Today she lives … Continue reading It’s Come to This
Alphabets: Xi
By Thomas Page I like to play the same songs over and over while working To hear the same lyric again while I try to find my own answers To a soulless prompt before me Requiring me to extract hope from despair And graded on the power of ex nihilo of an e re world. … Continue reading Alphabets: Xi
Two Poems by Ahmad Al-Khata
Love Between the Seasons I see you in the blue sky, you became a dark cloud I dream of you in a rainbow, you dream of me in autumn Writing a Letter I will be writing a letter to nobody brave or I know I want to say I am sorry for … Continue reading Two Poems by Ahmad Al-Khata
The Untranslatable: Shemomedjamo
By Thomas Page The Untranslatable This is a series of poems of words that do not directly translate into English. I have tried to capture the essence of the word in a poem. We often order appetizers and bread baskets before the meal Along with bowls of butter and whatever dip comes with it In … Continue reading The Untranslatable: Shemomedjamo
Messing with the Ball
By Fabrice Poussin Neon, like a felt pen, round and fast it flies just to be swatted like a vile bug unwanted. Broken, unable to perfect its spherical soul the laces, like stars, keep it one, against the odds. This one almost died of the angry kick of sharp cleats spotted … Continue reading Messing with the Ball
Academy of the Heart And Mind 