Tag: poetry

ONE POEM – Richard Brostoff

Above the house a low sun like a wrecking ball,
the world at the horizon splintered like a Rothko

ONE POEM – Stephen House

i order a long black
he looks at me
man on man gaze 

i smile

ONE POEM – Paul Robert Mullen

douse it           douse it            douse it
strike a match and freeze the scene

TWO POEMS – Natalie Crick

I want to feel
the warm milk of your smile. 
I want to see your reflection
in the moon’s mirror, polished like spring bones. 

POETRY – Chavonne Brown

She was not like unwitting prey,
That had never sighted the lion;
She fled from him, knowing
As she did what it meant…

TWO POEMS – Nadia Patterson

i’d put stickers all over the moon 
and hang it from the ceiling 
in the living room

ONE POEM – A. Martine

Brown girl: you don’t get a plot twist. Your story’s been penned
with strokes as hollow as they are spiteful

ONE POEM – Ian C. Smith

For those who forego the languor of home ground, that lethal rapine of routine, the most compelling sound of the travelling life might be a ferry’s foghorn throughout the night

ONE POEM – Emily Barker

A drunk girl came up to me in a club last week and told me, yet again, that I look exactly, no, exACtly–Sarah! Come over here! Doesn’t she look exACtly like our Hannah?

ONE POEM – Clifford Brooks

Vacant of leaves 
and shell-wrapped gifts,
dad and I can see the sky.

ONE POEM – Linda M. Crate

the fox and i 
shared one glance
i think about it all the time

ONE POEM – Jack B. Bedell

and as soon as I touched the freezer’s handle,
the tar wall behind it rippled.