on your grandmother’s farm – we delivered kids at sunrise by Keriann Gilson
Your grandmother’s house became our summer home, at the time you claimed it was to help her out in her old age, but really it was to escape your parents and I didn’t blame you for that. It was the summer before we moved into our own place, before full-time jobs, and arguments. I was […]
Bassdrop by Cambria Hines
Bassdrop I walk with gusto because I simply cannot wait. A bouncy kind of trot with my feet click click clicking against the pavement, causing eyes to watch me glide by. I pay no mind. The street is wet and glistening with a hundred colors, reflecting the world so that one loses track of which […]
Dangle by Jennifer Taylor
Dangle I suffer suspended from his body, hanged by my own desire, neck taut, twanging like a fishing line pulled tight, not with a delicious prize at the end, but caught in a tangle of slick, black kelp. I dance Feet pointing hard, beat a petit battement (I know this move well, years of ballet […]
Mockingbird Morning by Joan Leotta
Mockingbird Morning Feathers slicked down, he trills and chirps mourning dove’s song. Her chicks raise their heads from the nest. He swoops, stealing their food. Mama is away. I run out to chase him, before he can do more harm— I too, have been fooled by charming words and songs imitating real love. ~ Joan […]
Ham & Havarti on Sourdough by Scott Thomas Outlar
Ham & Havarti on Sourdough This is a poem about animals on the farm of which I am one a poem about their actions swine and lion factions a fascination with the trough This is a poem about the moo cow golden milk and rawhide leather a poem about the slaughtering fields twelve score of […]
