Tag: poetry

ONE POEM – Claire Sosienski Smith

paring knife, won’t use it to make 
the pierogi. The potato goes 
soft in the microwave, 
the onion falls apart 
and fries itself. 

ONE POEM – Hideko Sueoka

Bright rays reflect, shape, shake her portrait on the water skin
      and it’s broken, burnt, soon gone.

ONE POEM – Bernadette Gallagher

Get some hens
dig up the garden
sow and plant.

ONE POEM — Judith Amanthis

From the yew-dark wool you pulled
over my eyeball, 
knit one, maul one, 
you made a beam

ONE POEM — Matthew Moniz 

But Jesus never saved the birds. A bird
has never sinned. They have no need for grace,
salvation, guilt, contrition, holy words,

ONE POEM — Oliver Sedano-Jones

I walk along the beach; I find a bad thing so beautiful 
That now it’s a good thing

ONE POEM — Toby Jackson

But Krakow, why am I in Krakow looking for size eight shoes
following a strolling man with a hand-shaped dent in his hat?

ONE POEM – Greg Jensen

sharp as a thorn.
I held on
to whatever 

it had been
at the start of existence,
a stem cell

ONE POEM — Renwick Berchild

I am a maze of swinging doors.
Catch me, I’ll fall. Feel my ink.
Lost in the torn pelt of my wounds,
I’ve dabbled in sores and spirits.

ONE POEM – Bett Butler

Fruit of fungus
feigner of fauna
fusion of puck and protoplasm

ONE POEM – James Owens

pale sun after rain,
shadows come back shyly—
they’ve been washed

ONE POEM – Aidan Dolbashian

That cow can’t walk. She’s all lame. I won’t touch her hooves.