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Joy Martin
Innocence’s Ascent Bullets fly out from guns propelled by shooter’s hand and soundly land in the bodies of those who fight for this land. Twenty soldiers in the Hood fall to violence showered down, four dead… The news is interrupted … Continue reading
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Joan Dobbie
MY FIRST MEMORY, SWITZERLAND Circa 1947 I think I was not yet two At home In the tiny (neutral) country called Switzerland To which my parents escaped & where I was born & from which we later Were forced to … Continue reading
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Paul Portuges
The House That Love Built I’m happy in the house that love built. our palace of dirt where roses bloom. We rise early to chores, admire the sky floating on the bay, listen to dogs bark at bragging boys drunk … Continue reading
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Marian Kaplun Shapiro
Prayer For The New Year Be sweet, my soul, be soft, my soul go round the bend gently, gently remember, you are tired navigating all the hills and exits all the detours, all the unpaved roads, all the highways where … Continue reading
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Carrie Teresa Maison
Looking at the Moon In the kitchen I watched you fry it up in the pan while listening to Billie Holiday tell stories of ghosts. Lyrics mesmerize in a continuous spin. I imagine I find you in the nod of … Continue reading
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Marion Deutsche Cohen
THE HEART I haven’t the heart to tell you about the newly uncovered modern-day backwoods abortion clinic. You’ll lie awake nights wishing there was nothing instead of something. I’ll just say the women were poor, sometimes immigrants who probably didn’t … Continue reading
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Michele Madigan Somerville
Elegy for Paul Violi & After “Abundance” In Fra Paolo’s great picture “Canal Street,” everything’s half off. Nothing’s quite right, the gutters have been purged of vagabond whizz, cigarette butts and squid viscera all power- washed away by civil currents … Continue reading
National Poetry Month – 30 for 30
April not only brings showers, blossoms and warm weather, it is also National Poetry Month, a month devoted to the vibrant voices who make up the poetry community, who toil in the nuts and bolts of language and who produce … Continue reading
Call for Poets
30 Poems by 30 Poets A National Poetry Month Celebration To celebrate National Poetry Month, I am planning to publish 30 poems by 30 different poets on my website. Each day during the month of April, a new poem by … Continue reading
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Ode to Spring
After a long, wicked winter, here is my Ode to Spring Those daffodils you wore lithe and breezy when the sun nuzzled the snow-dipped fields and even the butterflies could not contain their silent laughter — Was that your way … Continue reading