Instructions: A series of three-line stanzas starting with a tetrameter refrain, a dimeter or trimeter second line, then a tetrameter line rhyming with the refrain. For an optional modulation, signal an altered refrain with the rhyme at the end of … Continue reading→
What More Can You Do?
By Alexa Mergen
At that time of day when the leaves’ edges sharpen
against the darkening dusk, the turkey hen flaps first
to the bed of the pickup truck, on to the … Continue reading→
Maya Angelou
By Juliana Chang
once I witnessed
the universe splitting open
to hold a poem,
her poem
now the atomic flower closes;
somewhere
perched in the ridges
of an open palm.
Juliana … Continue reading→
Pretty Woman
By Ricky Garni
The pretty blue woman who looked just like my dead blue wife
was really dancing the night away to the surf sounds of Los Straitjackets
on Halloween of all nights she even … Continue reading→
The Hero Enkidu: Canto IV: The Return Of Enkidu
By Lewis Turco
When at last
Enkidu returned
To the city of Erech
Gilgamesh
Was filled with joy.
He did not know
What had … Continue reading→