One Sentence Poems

J. R. Solonche One Cannot Use One cannot use a pen and a pistol at the same time, and that is all I have to say on the subject of poetry as therapy. J. R. Solonche has been publishing in magazines, journals, and anthologies since the early ’70s and is author of six collections of […]

J. R. Solonche Myopia The window, a sky composed of a single cloud somewhere near the sun, the desk lamp, a sun diffused through fog rising over a lake, the green blotter on the desk, a lake with rising fog, my glasses on the desk beside the green blotter, a bicycle rusting in the undergrowth […]

J. R. Solonche Botanical Gardens If yellow is the color of joy, then here is joy enough for a city of the miserable, and if red is love’s color, then here is red enough for all the cups of the loveless. J. R. Solonche has been publishing in magazines since the 70s and is the […]

J. R. Solonche Mistake It means “an error caused by a lack of skill,” which means a life, a whole life, can be an error caused by a lack of skill. J. R. Solonche has been publishing in magazines since the 70s and is the author of six poetry collections.

J.R. Solonche Botanical Garden If yellow is the color of joy, and If red is love’s color, then here is joy enough for a city of the miserable, and here is red enough for all the cups of the loveless. J.R. Solonche is author of Beautiful Day , Won’t Be Long , Heart’s Content , Invisible (nominated for […]

J.R. Solonche Aesthetics A poet I know showed me a letter he got from a reader in which this reader complained that his poems weren’t universal enough, and this so frustrated the reader (who called himself “a communicant not being communicated with”) that he wrote the letter to him, and the poet I know thought […]

J. R. Solonche Short Speech for Sisyphus  See how I torment my tormentor by cutting him out, and see how I punish myself by pushing this stone I cut up this mountain I built. J. R. Solonche is author of Beautiful Day (Deerbrook Editions), Won’t Be Long (Deerbrook Editions), Heart’s Content (Five Oaks Press), Invisible […]

J. R. Solonche Someday Someday the last poet in the world will write the world’s last poem, and someday the last reader in the world will read it and say to herself, “Where is Emily Dickinson when you need her?” J. R. Solonche is author of Beautiful Day (Deerbrook Editions), Won’t Be Long (Deerbrook Editions), Heart’s […]