By James Patrick Folder Here, take these, read them, keep them, burn them. I put them by, kept in a folder the verses you passed to me wrapped in a note with instructions trying out your woman’s voice on a man you chose to trust knew from the first I’d need to keep them with … Continue reading Folder and Veteran
Old Covered Bridge
By J. Jacob Grizzle Does that old covered bridge still stand in the place where the old highway used to cross the creek? It's a treasure of time, a place in the heart that reminds us of what we used to be. Can you still hear the train in the distance at night, Does that … Continue reading Old Covered Bridge
Please Put Me in the Sunlight
By De’Anne Roye The top lid holds on tight To the bottom lid And darkness covers my eyes Silence so beautiful Moments without thoughts Meditating, and my mind rests And recharge. The sun rays on my skin Soak so deep in The light permeates my soul Light as a feather Where worries flutter away And … Continue reading Please Put Me in the Sunlight
After Bushfire
By Julie Holland Bushfire came through Evil as devil may be No thing, nor thought, spared Just a trail of black Shapes rising to ether To sapphire sky, to smoke and sour Young and tender wind, a calling to Green, that pulls life from ash Look at that Dad, said the child A rescue helicopter … Continue reading After Bushfire
To My Hero and Other Poems
By Roselainie Panginuma Saidamin To My Hero To the woman who is worthy of my respect, You are the color of the garden of my paradise. A mother of five with a soft-enduring heart, Your love is wary and so is your sacrifice. To the woman who gives comfort and solace, You are the luminous … Continue reading To My Hero and Other Poems
Animated and Other Poems
By Susan Shea Animated Every week, at the library you filled shopping bags high with children's picture story books for me to drive home for you so we could go innocently grow up together in full color, away from the cemented melancholy I crawled through away from the parent-centered place where I wasn't seen or … Continue reading Animated and Other Poems
Cold Dark Ironies
By Brenda Mox He was born with something at odds inside a knot of vague darkness where he hides, cleared eyed as a wolf on the hunt. Brow dark and disturbed, a thunder headed runt with a raw reedy voice of outraged revenge which he spews forth from greyhound limbs. Sharp as a chip of … Continue reading Cold Dark Ironies
Platonic Love and Other Poems
By Jess Whetsel Platonic Love Previously published in The Amazine There is a room in my heart that only you can enter. You forged a key from curiosity and devotion, tied it ‘round your neck with fishing line, but still you knock first, let me open the door. I welcome you in with a checkerboard … Continue reading Platonic Love and Other Poems
For My Mother and Other Poems
By Angela Kosta Translated by the Indian poet Dilip Mewada For My Mother... I have written several lines and endless verses with my tears, pain of love for her. Where are you, my mother? I wish to kiss your eyes with goodness once again! I want to caress your warm hands just the way you … Continue reading For My Mother and Other Poems
Blood
By John Sierpinski The beginning of an end Before I gave blood, the phlebotomist said, Your last name is misspelled on your driver’s license. Then at the dreaded DMV, passport in hand, a picture that doesn’t even look like now, anymore. The clerk telling me to wait while she checks with her supervisor. I watch … Continue reading Blood
Academy of the Heart And Mind 