‘Climbing the World’s Peak’ by Yuxing Xia
Submerged in blinding red and blue at dawn, I climb the barren fields to find between the gentle tides of ...
Month: May 2015
‘Trajan’s Column’ and Other Poetry by Bruce Dale Wise
Trajan's Column By Uberdi Ascweli In Rome, amidst the many structures, gray, peach, white and brown, around it, rising, Trajan's ...
‘Bay from Berkeley’ and Other Poetry by Alec Ream
. . Bay from Berkeley Slate blue blustered inland sea Water from the rivers be Sea of salt and rain ...
‘The Bitter Harvest’ by Cheryl Corey
With steady hand, he takes a scalpel, cutsthe body open. Liver, spleen, the gutsextracted, packed in ice. The Party manlooks ...
‘One (1979)’ and Other Poetry by Ron L. Hodges
One (1979) A policy is still in place Which subjugates each woman’s womb. Spin doctors cannot render grace When pregnancy ...
‘In Denial We Trust’ by Cynthia Thornton Herrera
From what I see of life’s disgust; The killings, rampant shooting sprees, I’m sure that no one not agrees There’s ...
‘Meditating’ by Colin Fredericson
Through sandy, muddy, rocky creek, Silted, crudded, hard to speak, My heart was heavy, worn, and cramped, I needed ...
‘The First Day of Spring’ and Other Poetry by Lorna Davis
The First Day of Spring The first day of spring started rainy and cold, But new greens were sprouting, defiant ...
‘The Lumberman’ and Other Poetry by Bruce Dale Wise
The Lumberman by Bud "Weasel" Rice I saw him resting up against a giant gray-brown stump, the lumberman was pausing ...
‘BILLY Cat and MAX Dog’ by Don Shook
Burrowed down in leaves of brown piled by the garden wall, our Billy cat dreamed of a rat he’d chased ...
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"Forever in our memory now"
Adam, this deeply affectionate elegy certainly shows you are one of the many who now say, "We are Charlie." He…
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