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Mama's Last Love Song, poem by Joe Samuel Starnes
The sun goes down and it gets cold. Our children are behaving like dogs. The snakes are sleeping deep in their holes, fiery red and orange has faded from the leaves and our cups are brimming with bourbon. A blue sky is slowly … Continue reading
Cockerel, poem by Pat Smith Ranzoni
young man you must not think of me in fertile terms except as we both love languages for love must not think of me as the riper chick to favor for your volcanic quakes I’m a plump old biddy foolish for a cock spouting his best doodle-doo come when you’d like I’d applaud … Continue reading
Last Look, poem by Daniel Ruefman
Paint peeled from the clapboard siding, a house slanting sharply left; long broken, the windows were black eyes to the soul of what was left to linger. Inside, the stove pipe hung slightly askew where the cast iron belly once warmed the bones of … Continue reading
Crepuscular Memory, poem by Chris Joyner
Combing the naked soil one country morning, my mammoth Pawpaw taught me to spot an Indian arrowhead amidst dun rocks, beneath the wheel of crow chatter filling pine shadows cast long like swords across buckbrush. Imagine my hands, the buck fever I … Continue reading
The Placeholder, poem by Carol Alexander
Old man in a caravan grease-stained coverall retired lo lo nine point three years now. On the shortest day of the year shimmed down to a decimal electric fires spark, smolder, the trailer fills with creosote smoke; a bird’s nest ignites into a crown of … Continue reading
APOSTROPHE AT THE WHATELY DINER, poem by Joshua Michael Stewart
The waitress has a hummingbird tattoo behind her ear. She sings Volare, over the clanking and clatter. I sit in a booth next to a window. I let the sun warm my hands as I wait for my soup and bread. This morning … Continue reading
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Highlight of the Day, poem by Sheri Wright
Her youngest crawls through the dog's dish, then back again to retrieve a red Fruit-Loop floating in water. She sits underneath her crackle of blonde hair – three shades of peroxide streaked like chicken trails through straw, while the TV screen flashes her time … Continue reading
Ghost Teeth, by Dena Rash Guzman
My dead and buried speak from the memorial cards inside my white Bible. They command through their ghost teeth, “Again.” Grace! There is no again. The leaves turn red and turn gold. I go old, writing softly, pulling down inky words like snuff spit into great-grandma’s tin can. … Continue reading
Homegrown Tomatoes, poem by Jenifer Lee Wallace
First thing you notice is the color. “Red” doesn’t do it justice. This shade only exists in Technicolor. They haunt my dreams in late February, when a foot of snow covers the ground. Not ruby, not scarlet, not cardinal. “Pulsing red” … Continue reading
