Poem: ‘Oblique Landscape’
Oblique Landscape JP Jacobsen, I read your poem of a boundless heath with mossy stones…
Browsing: Poetry
Poem: Lovely Dead
Lovely Dead If I were to let you go who would I show this garden…
Poem: ‘Where beckons the quiver…?’
_ Where beckons the quiver…? Are there no spirits moving in the air _ …
Poem: ‘A Chapter in the War’
A Chapter in the WarAppian, 95-165 CEUnder orders from Octavian, the hardened captains – Pansa,…
Poem: Rental
Rental Motes swirled in windows like stars in The Starry Night. Water stains framed mirrors…
Poetry: ‘hospital suite’
From hospital suite One no matter how the oak ward is word-less the light buzz…
Poem: ‘If I Could Only’
If I Could Only I dream of roses blooming in the sky, of boys with…
Poem: Krismastime
Krismastime It’s Krismastime Get confetti Slug wile Midnight Fly heights Seeing worlds beam by beam…
Poem: Teacher
TEACHER I know I’ve made a christ of you the way I gather up the…
Poem: The Oath
The Oath The little hand he holds Is all they could find to give him:…
Poem: Old Road Sign
Old Road Sign The sere severed plywood sign painted a modest white was nailed once…
Fiction: Old Poetry
It was because of Daniel that Mary Ann remembered Tom again; because she’d found out…
Poem: Whom You’re Never Told
Whom You’re Never Told She pleads with her mantras for years—endless In a hill so…
Poem: The First of February
The First of February Well, here’s a pile of puke on a bank of snow,…
Poem: Hats On for the Happy
Hats On for the Happy We couldn’t go in person since the car had grown…
Poem: ‘Calling All Angels’
Calling All Angels Leaves fall like secret prayers— calling all angels September’s having her best…
Poem: Holy Hay
Holy Hay I didn’t have a chance to show you the sainfoin I sowed back…
Poem: ‘They Have Gained An Audience’
THEY HAVE GAINED AN AUDIENCE with the divine. The plumbline is vertical as the resulting…
Poem: ‘The Longest Day of the Year’
THE LONGEST DAY OF THE YEAR Lucky gull chicks on a city roof take food…
Poem: ‘The Vagabond’
The Vagabond J.M. Synge, 1871-1909 To comprehend, regard the brutal wilderness to hand. More than…