A Lesson While Hiking Mt. Skylight
for Maurice Kenny, 1929-2016
By Colin Pope
Catkin, boscage, rumpled leaves like sun-yellowed pages
littering the rooms of an abandoned school:
that’s how one might think of nature, Maurice,
A Lesson While Hiking Mt. Skylight
for Maurice Kenny, 1929-2016
By Colin Pope
Catkin, boscage, rumpled leaves like sun-yellowed pages
littering the rooms of an abandoned school:
that’s how one might think of nature, Maurice,
as … Continue reading→
After the Latest Mass Shooting
By Janet Barry
That it rains today, in sullen spits, grey
pouring over the mountains, mist
clinging to the half mast flag oozing out
her red white and blue in drops … Continue reading→
The Shine on the Road’s Blacktop When it Rains
By Erin Wilson
It’s 2016. South, Trump’s just been elected.
Here, thank God, after Harper (no … Continue reading→
What Would Rumi Do?
By Nahal Jamir
“All day I think about it, then at night I say it.
Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing?”
… Continue reading→
Sestina for My Unborn Daughter Without the Family Album
By Hajjar Baban
My mother and I are the same.
Neither of us know simple words
in our languages. Triangle, at all. Love,
sound enough for someone … Continue reading→