Four Poems by Jessica Pierce
Everyone told him he
survived. He had climbed
into a full bathtub,
pulled in a toaster.
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Category Archives: Poetry
Three Poems by Lauren Bender
It’s habit to lift my head / at the sound of certain voices, / women who walk by like farmers / with toughened arms, ready
to find anything slightly off / and set it right.
Three Poems by Michael Diebert
For I will consider my three-legged dog Berkeley
Three Poems by Aileen Bassis
Excerpts and Additions to A Plantation Owner’s Diary I. February 1709 I rose at 5 o’clock this morning and read a chapter in Hebrew and 200 verses in Homer’s Odyssey. […]
Five Poems by Carl Boon
At Seventeen At seventeen, you wore a purple gown and danced alone to Tony Martin’s “There’s No Tomorrow.” You were too old for the boys, too young for the men, […]
Three Poems by Henry Cherry
The hours gulped like frantic mouthfuls of air /
after being underwater for too long. The stars / dangled above us, buoyant and mysterious.
Four Poems by Brandon Hansen
A Nail.in Tuesday you are not yourself lately, less a phalanx now more Anthrax maybe, scattered like the whole air this morning the six spotted fishing spider dances, the ten-leaved […]
Poetry: Four Poems by Nancy Allen
The A.T. has its dangers: bears, crazy armed
loners, frostbite, but this carnival ride
tops the list.
Four poems by Surabhi Balachander
Always the possibility. Once upon a time we were lost on an island, halfway across the Bay Bridge. She wore the same clothes for two or three days, without washing […]
Three Poems by Ben Gunsberg
Vernice Bianca Luthiers say you can’t replicate a 16th century Stradivarius. Maple back and willow blocks varnished with honey, egg white, gum arabic. All but done, Stradivari brushed this vernice […]
