landscape with needles by Kathleen Hellen

landscape with needles by Kathleen Hellen

by | May 13, 2020 | Art, Poetry

landscape with needles after Bruegel between the Methodists and AME, the park and racetrack with its red eye turned to gamble between the Prius’ and Kias between ADT alarming padlocks, the deck with conversation seating, doggie dogs on leashes and muted pit bulls, the...
Cycles by William Blackburn

Cycles by William Blackburn

by | Apr 23, 2020 | Art, Poetry

Cycles Cycle of dirty laundry spinning ad infinitum in the rinse cycle Always another upkeep to keep up, everything decaying always Entreaty for succor for suckers borne each minute by entreaty Galvanized gallantly galloping to our hotspot polished pole galvanized...
A Particular by Carl Boon

A Particular by Carl Boon

by | Apr 15, 2020 | Poetry

A PARTICULAR In twenty minutes it will be 9:15, a particular that will come against us all: the student making sense of a Brahms sonata, another boiling macaroni in a chipped aluminum pot, or you, barefoot and considering your barriers—who made them?— between Bursa...
Bad Weather and All by E. Martin Pedersen

Bad Weather and All by E. Martin Pedersen

by | Apr 8, 2020 | Poetry

Bad Weather and All I could have lived in Sisters or moved to the isle of Lesbos — nectar and ambrosia — but I didn’t choose where I stayed near the stork nest, Bad weather and all.   Schizophrenia will not stop me nor walking on ice or pennies I...
Mother, I said by Gregory McGreevy

Mother, I said by Gregory McGreevy

by | Apr 1, 2020 | Poetry

Mother, I said Mother, I said, I’m a one note character my fibers are inchoate I have but a single, primitive dimension, and it’s in arrest nothing is cultivated but the loss of the familiar the essence of things that have since died under the march of...