Poetry

. St. Perpetua Eyewitnesses of the atrocity Report that on that Carthage afternoon, Already scourged and gored repeatedly By savage...

. Words Matter . I. Out of Context Cheats cherry-pick the words that suit their ploy To shame the names...

. Sanderling What saffron stylus could but trace the rusty scallop of the dancing wing, what sculptor’s chisel sharpened to...

. To the Passenger Pigeon As once, upon the Great Plains, thundering herds of buffalo, innumerable, held sway, a genocide...

. St. Patrick's Day 2024  for an Ireland suffering terribly under the weight of forced migration Where is the one...

. Coffee Limericks . I love to have coffee each morning, Including the act of the pouring: __I smell the...

. Watching It hardly matters what I’d read (Another plangent exposé Of something solid in the world That bit by...

. Musician and SCP poet Jeff Eardley performs the traditional Irish tunes "The Tenpenny Bit" and "Kesh Jig" in honor...

. Infernos on the Pages of Literary Journals That one barbaric yawp might just have been All right, but then...

. Choices Some lovers only give the rose, __Some only choose to take, Although the florist keeps a bunch __For...

. Serenade Down dash the splashlets of rain to the ground; Streams from the eaves full and fluent resound. Guests...

. Native Americans Were Swindled Out of Manhattan in 1634 Knowing Eyes—an aging elder, born in Black Bear County Famed...

. For Dorothy I have at times sat silent in this chair And furtively cast looks about the room Admiring,...

. His Stories Were His Legacy Ivan, The Barber, 1882-1963 . Covered in a heavy blanket, __he sat and watched...

. . Homophonophobic (This poem is so vain and humorous you’ll burst a vein or break your humerus) My editor...

. The Alleged Bulldozer My wife told me, shortly after we got married, that I “bulldozed” her into the marriage....

. DoorWay Canto 5: Waters of the Crab From Canto 4 in the constellation of Taurus, the Bull, the poet...

. Monica's Consolation for Margaret Coats, who introduced me to St. Augustine of Hippo (354-430) and his mother, St. Monica...

. For Paavo Nurmi who trained against his stop-watch and in medias rez we begin as the runners approach the...

. Good Intentions “One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and...

. Bowing to Power Although they might Not do what’s right, The very strong Are never wrong. If you complain,...

. Samson, Tribe of Dan "Dan is a serpent in the path. He bites the horse's heel and causes the...

. The Stoat and the Old Goat This tale concerns a little stoat, With eyes of black and velvet coat,...

. Stop All The Clocks after W.H. Auden Stop all the clocks, stop all humdrum, Silence the warblers, their constant...

. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGLFPOccCAI https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7NwnsyJD044?feature=share . . Andrew Benson Brown has had poems and reviews published in a few journals. His epic-in-progress, Legends...

. Story Time The father, he sits on the couch with a book, A child in each arm, and one...

. Hatching A gelid mass of wings that seethed and surged— A squeamish sight that caught me by surprise— A...

. Sunday Morning Flock of Starlings He saw, while driving down the roadway, off 288, a flock of starlings at...

. Philanthropaths & Puppets Philanthropath: a psychopath masquerading as a philanthropist. ---the Urban Dictionary . I. So Rose the Puppeteer...

. Original Smile Fossil remains show nothing of the first Facial flourish dimpling a human cheek. Was it some reflex...

. Fed Suffering The True Story of Dai Mingrong . Not merely stale today, her bowl of rice Now tastes...

. To Catch The Wind after Tennessee Williams "We Have Not Long To Love" I want to catch the wind...

. Do Your Jobs Live up to the Constitution That contains a plain solution. Guard us from invading mobs. Come...

. Insomnia, My Sometime Muse She comes to me while I’m asleep,Not with strange imaginings of dreamsBut with fragmented thoughts....

. I Am with You You are with me, this day, and I’m with you; in spirit and in memory...

. Jane Doe These trembling hands are not the first to jostle away unholy grabs from praying hands; you crossed...

. The Crimson Creed We know the primal aggregate, Self-molded at the start of time, Before the Big Bang uppercut...

. The Nymph by Luis de Góngora y Argote (1561-1627) translated by Alan Steinle As morning sunlight first began to...

. Fani Fever Wide eyes are mesmerized by Fani Willis In pink as vivid as an amaryllis. The guy she...

. Credit Does it make any sense, For me to have pride, When I just dispense, What God put inside?...