Poems from Falling World by Lynn Lyman Trombetta
View from the Headland: Hare Creek Beach, Mendocino Except for the gulls, which lift in languid curves from the sand and swing back down, they are the only ones on the beach, this teenage couple cutting their afternoon classes. She is ten feet ahead of him, her shoes already off, thrown down. Her long skirt…Read More
Poems from Any Old Wolf by Murray Silverstein
ANY OLD WOLF Puzzled by all that e-i, e-i, o business on Old McDonald’s Farm, I once thought vowels were feed, like hay or slop, and therefore the critters cried neigh or moo, oink or baaa: they needed to be fed. They came with consonants like teeth, but vowels came from the man. And when…Read More
Poems from No Easy Light by Susan Sibbet
The Longing for Coffee —the bitter thick taste of it against the mouth roof, the knowing back of the tongue. The black steam rising silently, damp cup warming the fingers, cheek, bright, the bright— eyes opening after weeks of rain. The lashes stick with waking salt. Veins and passages, blood and sound clear. Light pulls…Read More
Poems from Poems from The Distant Sound by Eliot Schain
SPARK When the lightning came through the socket in the house he went out onto the Great American Plain to confront his maker and in the thick night air with only smatterings of rain but the deep thunder that tickles bone he thought of the visions that have changed the world—the brave if slightly stupid…Read More
Poems from The Orbit of Known Objects by Lisa Erin Robertson
The Mineral Kingdom ~ Lisa Erin Robertson Just an hour outside of Las Vegas, the sky chilled Baker through winter nights, my cheek against the Ford glass, black and cold like that desert, nothing between December-dead creosote and a sky that glittered like druze, mineral black gleam of coal or diamonds that shone in defiance…Read More