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Poetry

Take the Mods Thrifting

(April 25, 2024) what goes better with the blue suede shoes: the pink peg slacks or the red blue jeans? This raspberry beret matches the pants, or I could do the fez and...

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Poetry / By Dottie Simmons

I want...

(April 18, 2024) I want to be A good ancestor To plant seeds for Future generations To harvest I want to leave A foundation For strong community Happy and willing to Work together...

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Poetry / By Diana Lynn

How to Survive This

(April 11, 2024) I won't check the news right now if you won't. Instead, let's think about summer peaches so ripe we'll eat them leaning over the kitchen sink, or the crunching sound...

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Poetry / By Amelie L.P.

I Sang Guthrie For Guthrie in a Psych Ward

(April 4, 2024) Baby, I sang Guthrie for Guthrie in a psych ward in '61 Ode to the times, the times gone bye...Oh the times, they're always a-changin'. Back then, a penny was...

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Poetry

Rules for Living

(March 28, 2024) Nobody wants to hear your story about how you almost didn't choose the winning team in the March Madness bracket. Believe me. Nobody. Iain Macdonald...

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Poetry

Lingerings

(March 21, 2024) We all leave our marks In the canopies of life, Breathlessly branching. Kirk Gothier...

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Poetry / By Adrienne Veronese

SUBATOMIC

(March 14, 2024) Each up, each down, each strange, and every charm that naively splits the atom from which ghost particles emerge and leave us puzzling over metaphors and their meaning, leads us...

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Poetry / By Lori Cole

Midwinter Day

(March 7, 2024) The air is crisp Sunshine streaming through the window With a bite A gentle breeze plays with the curtain. Trees jut up on The horizon, a row of clouds Blanket...

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Poetry

Untitled

(February 29, 2024) Looking Out Towards endless waves Rolling in effortlessly Changing coastlines In ways unimaginable Just a few years ago. The air we now breathe Is no longer sustainable And our...

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Poetry / By Sam A. Flanagan

Flying to the Desert

(February 22, 2024) On the plane, Next to me; Her book is Arabic, while The big fellow in front; Tattoos all over, hugs his daughter, Whispering thoughts, To her demurred, shy smile lighting ...

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Poetry / By Monte Merrick

thoughtexperiment (gulls in the dunes)

(February 15, 2024) when you find yourself under a fleet of gulls your wonder is as far as your wonder can justly take you. you just can't reach out and take this gull,...

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Poetry

The Gathering

(February 8, 2024) They wait silently in the trees and bushes For the seeds I throw Every morning on the wooden deck The juncos a variety of sparrows One with a missing tail...

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Poetry / By Dottie Simmons

Mud

(February 1, 2024) Dancing in puddles Digging in mud The things that all toddlers Do with great love. And we have a toddler All covered in fur Who dances And prances And burrows...

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Poetry / By David Holper

Hiking the New Year

(January 25, 2024) Not bothering with resolutions, I celebrate the New Year by hiking. I start with the hills in the park nearby, legs burning from doing nothing all fall, all year. Days...

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Poetry

Transcendent Ascent

(January 18, 2024) White fir, you are fine in your frosty coat. The weight of the season rests on your branches. Hunker down, sweet conifer. May I make tea from your needles? I...

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Poetry / By Dale Mensing

Message: The Quest

(January 11, 2024) Atlanta born there was a man who in his youth had known the wrongs of racial hate–and thus began the quest where living love belongs. Of brotherhood he dared to...

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