All posts in Poem of the Week

  • Between Ordinary

    By Meg Booth

    I see you as
    Light resting on a brick wall,
    Pieces of the sky in

    Between

    A tangle of branches,
    Stretched clouds on lazy days,
    Dried tulip petals pressed

    Between

    Glass to preserve the spring.
    An inhale before the notes escape.
    The hum of a song stuck

    Between

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  • Anniversary

    by Jason Irwin All day I felt the need to call you, as if there was something important I should say. How to explain this restlessness, this feeling of being stranded when all around me the […]

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  • A neighborhood cut down

    by Frank G. Karioris

    The smell of trees & nature holds the air steady
            juniper, maple, & pine.

    Quiet is disrupted by mechanical whirs & hums
    of machines digging ground outwards. …

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  • Earth Day 2020

    “It is enough to mow prideful rows in the lawn three times a week/ and sincerely wish the mill still belched prosperity./ After all, decay was scraped from skyscraper-teeth by 1950.”

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  • APRIL 20

    by Dagny Felker

    “The future can wait until next week I’m busy now burning/ the candle at both ends/ or should I say spluttering/ or should I say biting the wick”

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  • chimera pantoum

    “the protein slapped inside thin elastic pink tracts/ a forgotten closet in her skin tucked into flesh/ in every organ cancerous/ her fetal cells wait/ her skin behind her breast scratched ribs”

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