We asked for sets of 5 one-sentence poems which tell a story. We’ll run these sets from time-to-time. Here’s part I of our first series. We’ll run the rest this week, one poem per day! Steve Klepetar A Meeting, Part I Because times were bad, I think he came to comfort me on an […]
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Sean Lyon “Portrait”
Sean Lyon Portrait Flour floats to rest on the pizza shop owner’s black orthopedic boots as he catches spinning dough with all the gravitas of receiving his dead mother’s fine wedding china falling from the sky in busted parachutes, plate after plate after plate. Sean Lyon is a native Texan living in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn. […]
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F. J. Bergmann “Mind Disaster”
F. J. Bergmann Mind Disaster I think of all those people lost inside of their America. F. J. Bergmann would prefer that the days remain long year-round without the hassle of moving to the Equator.
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Paige Foster “Lettering”
Paige Foster Lettering Perhaps it is a sort of nostalgia, this wistful feeling that blossoms like wet ink on the page every time I come across your handwriting in an old book. Fascinated by the multitude of ways humans communicate, Paige Foster spends a lot of time trying to coax various languages and mediums into […]
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Paige Foster “Pea Shoots”
Paige Foster Pea Shoots If you moved to Maine to become a summer farmer, I’d bring a book to the markets and spend hours under the beating, humid sun, watching the fair-weather wanderers peruse your hard-earned fruits, and when the winter came I’d bundle up and make us coffee and wait for spring. Fascinated by […]
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Wes Civilz “To Change a Famous Quote”
Wes Civilz To Change a Famous Quote Sex is something so divine that it must be surrounded by a bodyguard of suffering, because otherwise we’d not stop. Wes Civilz lives and breathes on a green hill in Vermont.
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J. R. Solonche “Wild Turkeys”
J. R. Solonche Wild Turkeys Like dirty oil from an old truck, the wild turkeys leak out of the woods and across the road, black drop, by black drop, by black drop. J. R. Solonche has been publishing in magazines, journals, and anthologies since the early 70s and is author of six poetry collections.
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Larry Wright “Raven”
Larry Wright Raven the blackness of you sings. Larry Wright was born, raised and still lives in Sitka, Alaska, where in public, he’s been a bad singer a worse comedian and mediocre actor.
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