Category Archives: Poems

FOUR POEMS, THREE POETS NANCY KUHL Grieving Narcissus sound decaying within the ear and without your chaos memory born of blue contemplation an eye first revealing bones or that ever- wavering reflection and how you are exceptional again and I observe your lips open around see, I and naturally I want to reply but theContinue reading “Poems of the Week”

FOUR POEMS, FOUR POETS Jon Loomis Conspiracy Theory It starts with a flash, and then snow – dither of sparrows, winter clenching its teeth. One day you’re out walking: your shoes sink into the pavement, the white van pulls up to the curb. Of course they deny the whole thing, whoever they are in theirContinue reading “Poems of the Week”

FOUR POEMS, FOUR POETS JULIET COOK Venus Tree I planted my oranges with teeth. I offered my crush a piece of spiked fruit; next thing I knew, he was missing an arm. Could this be transcendence in a newfangled way or were we just consuming each other? How do we move past our mutilation intoContinue reading “Poems of the Week”