THOSE BOYS GHAZAL Delicious lips spun candy shivers down her skin, vowed never again boys. There’d be no settling now on one of those you
Leaps of Faith By Douglass Allen
Leaps of Faith A flea, a frog, a flying fish, All faithful ones, had just this wish- To leap from sorry earth and sea To
KINTSUGI By Jodi Balas
KINTSUGI God? It’s me – the beggar at it again the beggar with the new car and glasses. It’s been some time since we last
A Form of Love/Hate By Karen Poppy
A Form of Love/Hate No one likes a villanelle, Not really—but everybody, Everybody, loves a villanelle. Lines tight, wrought too well. No room for true
Two Poems By Marc Darnell
Rachmaninov Melodeer, yet mutineer to stiff construction, wraith of pianissimo’s thunder tones– I gasp and latch to lifts of ired, caustic, winged arpeggios. I have
Two Poems By Martha Deed
Haunted by Martha 1 It’s true old people chew memories on their cuds. If they’re not sick or burned up by inflation and forced to
