Poem of the Week | Irena Praitis
Porifera He locked the doors. He had to. He needed to be alone when he felt this good. No one could keep up with him. The relief. The rush, soaking in it, air in his lungs forever. Until it...
View ArticleDonald Levering’s poem, “In Hospice,” finalist for the 2020 Prime Number...
Help us in congratulating Donald Levering in his exciting accomplishment! It is an honor for his poem, “In Hospice” to be chosen as a finalist for the 2020 Prime Number Magazine Award. The post Donald...
View ArticlePoem of the Week | Donald Platt
Living in Subtitles In The Interpretation of Dreams, Magritte has painted a four-paned window. All four panes are black. On each a superimposed image. Under each image, a handwritten label. He has...
View ArticlePole Dancing in the Night Club of God
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View ArticlePoem of the Week | Susan Gardner
Box of Light ~ Caja de Luz Box of Light At six in the afternoon the air is heavy with sun filled with intimations of the coming evening still holding a lovely light A motionless moment I put my...
View ArticlePoem of the Week | Denise Low
Green Again Our primate eye cones absorb blues, greens, reds. Sight range less than pigeons. My love, your eyes taste of willow groves not mangoes. Pondwater pools in my mouth. The Cherokee word is...
View ArticlePoem of the Week | Donald Levering
The Green Man Our primate eye cones absorb blues, greens, reds. Sight range less than pigeons. My love, your eyes taste of willow groves not mangoes. Pondwater pools in my mouth. The Cherokee word is...
View ArticlePoem of the Week | Vera Kroms
The Body Servant Tends Jin Lien A girl is no gift. Perfection is small. Prune what cannot be adored. A man wants a virgin with a thumb-sized step. On nights when you are sick with pain, I will carry...
View ArticlePoem of the Week | Walter Bargen
Of Rivers ad Trains 1 When you’ve traveled this far One rail loses sight of the other. The steel doesn’t join in the distance. Oaks no longer grow to tie Their directions together. A locomotive rears...
View ArticleJust Arrived! The Itinerate Circus – New and Selected Poems 1995-2020
Like the poetry of Richard Hugo, whom George Looney invokes in so many of his own poems, this is a poetry deeply sad, the landscapes brutal, the images grim. I myself think often of contemporary...
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