Barbara Anna Gaiardoni – 3 haiku
World Pizza Day… dine with the feet on the grass * night pink – heated debate near a cherry blossom * Earth Day – stillness among the waves
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Sarah Henry – Born in the Year of the Snake
Born in the Year of the Snake I’m a snake with an office. It’s my hole. There I call many businesses to sell lots of oil. I have a pint-sized cactus with a pot and a filthy desk. I slide off at five. I’ve been devious and cold-blooded. I faked my charges for a trip […]
Read more "Sarah Henry – Born in the Year of the Snake"Eugen Spierer – “Sometimes They Hit Me”
“SOMETIMES THEY HIT ME” Sometimes they hit meand it feels goodwhen you knowthere’s no malice,and there’s even sometenderness.You feel safealthough itstill hurts.
Read more "Eugen Spierer – “Sometimes They Hit Me”"TIM STALEY – 15 LAKE MARTIN HAIKU
All night pine trees stand together – a cordon protecting us from what? * We sync up with the slow soggy heartbeats of a heron. * In silver glimpses fish dart in sunlight, churn the surface. * Driveway spider swells his body into her room. * The River Otter Under fog, a blunt nosed black […]
Read more "TIM STALEY – 15 LAKE MARTIN HAIKU"James Croal Jackson – Dejected Catholic Upbringing
My Dejected Catholic Upbringing The earth contains a hundred trillion terabytes, which is a quarter of a God. Which seems low given my dejected Catholic upbringing. Sorry, in my clogged thoughts I forgot you were listening. It is beyond me to forget myself. There is light on the other side. I can see it in […]
Read more "James Croal Jackson – Dejected Catholic Upbringing"Daniel Schulz – Pleasure
Pleasure We have gone too far already. Our life is a mine shaft that we dig in hopes of finding treasure, exploiting every vein of our bodies, excavating the vestiges of our flesh in the hopes of making it cash. The canary isn’t singing anymore. The mountain is caving in. And in the dark you […]
Read more "Daniel Schulz – Pleasure"Joe Bisicchia – May You See It Sit
May You See It Sit And may you not miss it like you did this past Christmas, and somehow even year round, in the pear tree, the partridge. That is, if only, such a sitting bird would have time for such a seat to find so to help an eyewitness. Meantime, time is swiftly time. […]
Read more "Joe Bisicchia – May You See It Sit"Karl Koweski – 3 POEMS
extinguished when she leaves againI’m left to admire herdeparting figure, the wayher country/western shirtclings to her slender back.I count the tarnishedsilver socketslacking rhinestones likedead stars sequesteredin the Persephoneconstellation.an affair definedby absence. ~ union station, Nashville of course, it takes me onlyfive minutes to get readyfreeing me to linger nearthe doorway of the bathroomwitnessing Sera’s ritual,her […]
Read more "Karl Koweski – 3 POEMS"Cody Adams – Heat Lightning
Heat Lightning Is just normal lightning That’s too far away For the rain and thunder To reach. I always thought It was a magical kind of summer storm: All the marvelous light with None of the dreary consequences. I was just as disappointed to learn That shooting stars are also a misnomer. They’re just fast […]
Read more "Cody Adams – Heat Lightning"JOHN GREY – INTO NICARAGUA
INTO NICARAGUAWe played nice with the officious border guards.They stamped our passports like driving nails through the paper.Villagers paid little attention to us.We looked as harmless as a light breeze.We drove up and down hills and around cattle.When lost, we asked for directions in broken Spanish.Rations were kept purposely low – rice and beans.Our stomachs […]
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