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Thank you everyone for participating in this year’s 30 for 30 challenge. Our judge, David Anthony Sam, remarked that “the quality of the poetry was high,” and that he had a hard time choosing a winner. Nonetheless, he has selected … Continue reading →

Love on Imaginary Boulevard No lonely pedestrians strolling, not one. Baking bread on the early morning breezes. Sounds of the ocean nearby, soothing rhythms Scent of plumeria, all tension fading. All hugs are welcome, warm, happily gifted. Little free libraries … Continue reading →

Love on Imaginary Boulevard The letter arrives in her mailbox on a sunny day in April, that cruel month mixes winter and spring: cold rain on bright daffodils. I’d like to tell you she tears the envelope flap open, breeze … Continue reading →

THERE IS NO mortar for grief THERE IS NO mortar for grief. Never. Honest, pure sunlight thru mutins. Clinic windows. Children’s ward. During childhood in hospital, I’d imagine: A Boulevard where kisses were exchanged evenings Over the Hudson River. Polio, … Continue reading →

Eros Rebuffed When Johnny Germaine went strolling down the street, the ladies looked at him in speculation: “Who is this man, so handsome, so suave, so neat? What’s his name, his marital situation?” Yet Johnny’s eyes were set on one, … Continue reading →

Imaginary Boulevard night falls like rain in the curve of late season strangers coo under eaves where old songs are sung forgotten their homes, abandoned all reason conversant now only in strange whispered tongue trysting on Imaginary Boulevard here fingertips … Continue reading →