Tag: writing

ONE POEM – Kira Scott

these are the tears that we cannot shed
as we comment on the beauty of the glen and
how wonderful it must have been to live in such a place.

TWO POEMS – Tim Kiely

the cake is made of Walthamstow
a dense and glutinous Walthamstow
we are going to make Walthamstow
a Titanic success for Walthamstow

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 – Noemi Gunea

I wanted you so much
I started making things up

ONE POEM — Judith Amanthis

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

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 – 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.

ONE POEM – William Doreski

Dried for sale, sea stars remind you
that we haven’t seen the Atlantic 
breathing heavily along a beach
for a couple of plague-struck years.

Navigating Goodbye – Tyler Plofker

The party is winding down and it’s time to make your exit. You stand in the living room mentally preparing for the torrent of goodbyes you’re now socially obligated to initiate. It is Christmas Eve.