Category: Poetry

-Diana Raab Tonight I need a poem about being calm and how babies sleep deep and the full moon illuminates my yard. A friend arrives with a good book and we share a pot of chamomile tea. Together, we saunter on a forest walk and then stop at a bistro for a glass of wine.… Read more

-Jim Burns Moon and stars, icy light points flicker in a dome of darkness. Trees buzz with cicada singing a chorus, we live, we live. Sleeping boy in hammock climbs a starlit ladder of dreams to the future. JIM BURNS was born and raised in rural Indiana and spent most of his working life as… Read more

-Michael Bickford We’ve said all the things that lovers say when skin is wet but warm against the sheets; when breathing slows to deepened sighs of bliss, our edges merging embers ashed with sheen of sweat; when language is no longer words. The gravity of our bodies, still strong enough to spark a star, can… Read more

-Keiraj M. Gillis the instructions say “add water” but everyone knows it’s better with milk. who cares what the box says anyway? the person who wrote those instructions is a person you don’t know. who are they to tell you that your heart is misinformed when it implores “i would be happier with this instead”?… Read more