Miss Missing
By LaToya Jordan
White sashes embroidered
with gold letters
showcase our locations:
Bottom of the East River
Abandoned Lot Southwest of Philly
Burnt House in North Carolina
Buried in a Park in … Continue reading→
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→