Couches not to be sat on, tables you were not to set a glass down on, drawers that were shrouded by a strict taboo, whole rooms that were forbidden, and the ancient tiny porcelain thing of which your mother said, Don’t you dare forget , no matter what you do, don’t go near her cup! […]
Poetry 63
Deanne Lundin: Eyebright
Elsewhere, the days remove layers of doubt The way new stars confirm our suspicion That birth is what happens when we are out Looking for answers. Light from the Pleistocene Era illumines your eye in its tight fit At the telescope. Briny little puffs Of air from the shore leave your mouth As stray marks […]
Deanne Lundin: Blossom Sings at the Halloween Ball
i.mirror oh it was cold in the age of reason everyone slick as ice or as rigid and rage knifed thin along blinding mirrors honey a diet coke she said naturally people were bitchy dwarves dressed up like waves beached on sand too rich for the heart oh dear christ not the peach satin too […]
Thomas David Lisk: At the Museum (A Pantoum)
1. Anger At the museum I saw bandaged dogs and pointed dreams. I appreciate the generosity of the open page. Twine fastened paddles to airless machines and prickled reveries. I appreciate the subtle evocations of these contrivances. String tied wings to ground-bound machines. I wanted to see them through a microfying glass: made-up things that […]
Rick Liljegren: This is a Poem about Death
It ends with the rain on the other side of the window; stream water folding on itself, impressionist roses swaying like trout swimming in place, the house tapping its nails against skylight. As if this were my home, instead of the warehouse with tin walls, abandoned, GODS spray-painted on the outside like a possessive answer; […]
Frederic Koeppel: Intriguing, Bittersweet, Yet Lyrical
Shall we mean what we say and abandon the blush of foreshadowing? Or shall we join the stooped gleaners in their staggered rows? So patient, so silent and proud, as if they read in the golden rubble at their feet the dictionaries of grief and deliverance. May one beg your forgiveness and still be a […]