From Your Editors One Sentence Poems is taking a short break starting today and resuming publication on July 3. Dale, Elizabeth, & Tony are the editors of One Sentence Poems.
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Poems
06/23/2018 — 0
Chris Callard “Cheer Up, Pal”
Chris Callard Cheer Up, Pal When nights are lonesome and days feel phony, think of the poor old abalone. Chris Callard lives in Lakewood, CA, adjacent to the literary and sports center of Long Beach.
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Scott Hughes “Will”
Scott Hughes Will You died two years ago, but since you don’t have a gravesite, I find myself still leaving you messages on social media, digital prayers that I hope reach you through the code of zeroes and ones. Scott Hughes wants you to read some of his other writing at https://www.writescott.com/
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Steve Klepetar “Looking Down”
Steve Klepetar Looking Down When night blazes, when our eyes turn to lanterns, when we climb away from heat, looking down, when we watch our houses burn and everything turn to ash, we come to know how quickly fire swallows towns, how all around the hills burn, and under earth rivers boil toward the sea. […]
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Howie Good “Woken by Worry”
Howie Good Woken by Worry There’s just enough light bleeding in through the window for me to see what isn’t there, a man in plastic sunglasses opening a black umbrella like some kind of signal for the dark to start shrieking. Howie Good is on the pavement, thinking about the government.
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H. Edgar Hix “Late April Snow”
H. Edgar Hix Late April Snow Watching it through the window of the preemie ward: delicate, unexpected, brief. H. Edgar Hix is like blood: still in circulation, liking to be read.
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Gil Hoy “Abstinence”
Gil Hoy Abstinence Before waking sleeping giant ghosts living deep inside you, living deep inside your most faraway dreams, be sure you first know your universe to its core. Gil Hoy is a Boston poet and trial lawyer.
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Ion Corcos “Days”
Ion Corcos Days As the days lengthen, an eighty-year-old woman walks slowly down the hill, turns eighty-one. Ion Corcos is currently travelling full-time and enjoys writing about nature and life. Ion’s website is www.ioncorcos.wordpress.com and he tweets at @IonCorcos.
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