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Dale Wisely

Flower Conroy: 2 poems

Flower Conroy Hellflowers Miniflora, no greater than spilled pearls, polka-dot the lawn with their violent reds. After Burying the Dead Everything translates itself anew—stairwell, rosary, pyx—even the light entering the kitchen as I wipe my hands on this yellow apron.   An aficionado of watermelon garnished with fresh-squeezed lemon, Flower Conroy is also the author of Escape […]

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Erica Sternin: 2 poems

Erica Sternin Before Cancer My staccato heels sharply Made it clear that I was all business, And taller than you, And very busy. Stage III As if in a nightmare, I discovered A zombie nursed at my breast.   Erica Sternin lives and works in Seattle Washington, when she’s not shapeshifting,  she works as a children’s […]

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William Cullen, Jr: 2 poems

William Cullen Jr. Rapture As the moon crosses the sun fireflies briefly appear like souls set free from the dark earth. Tanka A hawk skims the trees as a squirrel’s mad dash through the oaks shakes loose yellow leaves marking its escape down the block one step ahead of the night. William Cullen, Jr., a veteran […]

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Erica Goss: Fever Dream

Erica Goss Fever Dream I have decided to let this infection till my body, though it may break me as surely as the plow broke the prairie, opening me like new soil for fine white roots, foreign seed. Erica Goss is the Poet Laureate of Los Gatos, CA.

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