One Sentence Poems

Tom Russell Everyone Else Was Buying War Bonds Army patrols from the Frog Pond country school fought Nazis on the prairie at one recess and from high-flying swings at the next. Tom Russell‘s commute to work was roughly a quarter of a million miles over the first 18 years.

Tom Russell Former Air Traffic Controller He once could absorb meaning from a stream-of-consciousness poem written on a rolling marble but today clears the milk to land in the cupboard.   Tom Russell works at the public library in Omaha, Nebraska.  

Tom Russell Red Light Kryptonite Coming to rest where two roads meet, behind a truck hauling caskets, my immortality falls away like a Kamikaze pilot’s pocket change. Tom Russell works at the public library in Omaha, Nebraska.