For John Gardiner
By Charles Ardinger
When you hear he was driving when
that gigantic heart burst and silenced that
voice’s warm explosions of love you might
imagine a proud bear who roamed his forest
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The Death of a Performance Poet
By Adam Grabowski
He remembers wide eyed
but with a bitter lip.
Said he was living out West
but was thinking of moving
here for a while.
He read … Continue reading→
Border Semantics
By Alan Chazaro
Human Tsunami is a phrase used by politicians to explain a wave of refugees
fleeing one
country’s coast for another. It’s a sudden crash of corpses in San Francisco; a crest
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Mirror Of Light
For Sara Teasdale
By Bobbi Sinha-Morey
On the lap of earth petals
of light quivered upon her
grave, her spirit hushed
like love that had been
tightly sealed away, her
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Frank Stanford sitting on a cumulonimbus near the gate that bypasses Purgatory
By Richard H. Fox
— It wasn’t a dream it was a flood — Frank Stanford, poet (1948-1978)
I need a wingman to watch my back
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