Poetry
Poetry
“Fourth of July last year” by Brennan Burnside
11 November 2021 on PoetryFourth of July last year My mother was buried in the hospital, folded up with her family’s dishes, placed in the storage room where she grew weight and time hung...
The Writer's Hot Seat
An Interview with poet Candice Reffe
25 October 2021 on Blog, Poetry, The Writer's Hot SeatCandice Reffe's poems have been published in Denver Quarterly, Hotel Amerika, Poetry Daily, Riddle Fence, Verse Daily, and Witness, among other publications. Candice spent many years in New York City...
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“Much Earlier than God” by Dmitry Blizniuk
20 October 2021 on PoetryMuch Earlier than God Early morning fog is thrown onto the lowlands of the citylike a blue fox fur coat.Your soul takes in the dawn streets.Your lips move. Your clouds...
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“Sleeping Dogs” by Kevin Griffith
20 October 2021 on PoetrySleeping Dogs Morning arrives with its cough of fog,its car alarms crying for help.And no one ever does. Branches reach for cool air.Birds speak in nothing but commas,while the street...
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“A Long Silence” by Paula Brancato
08 October 2021 on PoetryA Long Silence It had been 20-odd years since he and I had been close enough to share a bed. An old man now, decidedly...
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“Huai’an Dawn” by Tingyu Liu
08 October 2021 on PoetryHuai'an dawn I.My mother as a girl: first to wake each winter morning,she fills up the family’s tin basin, dutifully tilted to dull the stream’s cold, sharp ring. Slim hands submerged, she scrubs—father’s...
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“Fragment” by Katherine Gaffney
24 September 2021 on PoetryIn the lane opposite us, my love and I witness a car stopped beneath the train trestle, both driver and passenger depart their vehicle to remove a Canadian goose from...
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Three Poems by Simon Perchik
23 April 2021 on Poetry*You wipe one stain against anotherreminding this napkin to start storing fatfor winter and the night ahead a quiet swipe, simple so its edgesslow down, are dozing offalready dreaming about...
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“The Pie Lady” by Lowell Jaeger
26 March 2021 on PoetryHer pie wagon steamed early mornings— far end of the fairgrounds —with smells of home-baked sweets. She chose me, of all the ride-jockeys, to drive with her for sacks of...
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“Do What You Will with My Mother’s Shalwar” by Maryam Ghafoor
12 March 2021 on PoetryFor every Khawaja I wear them without a kameez,not harem pants; these are the real thing.When I walk my mother’s neighborhood, all the white people stare, parttheir curtains, come out...
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“I TOO MOURN” BY JERRY T JOHNSON
19 February 2021 on Poetry—after Langston Hughes Liberty misunderstoodLiberty misrepresentedLiberty lied on, lied about wears a veil, dressesin sackcloth, spreads ashacross her forehead, ashesacross her landscapes torn Liberty weeps beneath darknessLiberty gazes upon terror...
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“Catch and Release” by Kyle D. Craig
05 February 2021 on PoetryWhen I was a boy my father lifted the barbed-wire fence beyond which lay a pond teeming with bass, bluegill, catfish. We pulled worms from catalpa trees,punctured their bodies on...
