2022 Winter

Sufi warrior poet Tiel Aisha Ansari has been featured by Measure, Windfall, and Everyman’s Library. Her collections incl…   For subscribers (Subscribe here!)   Or log in below:   Username or E-mail Password Remember Me     Forgot Password

A $1000 prize will be awarded to a writer who is living above the 40th parallel.  Only poets with an even numbered …   For subscribers (Subscribe here!)   Or log in below:  

            —After Robert Frost Two freeways diverge on the …   For subscribers (Subscribe here!)   Or log in below:  

My knife keeps rhythm with the bass A surly oboe flutters Coltrane has his alchemy I’ve got mine: thick-rind globes …   For subscribers (Subscribe here!)   Or log in below:  

4:12 AM I wake, finger my upturned wrist check for a beat, for a promise, a message giving me some reason to rise. I…   For subscribers (Subscribe here!)   Or log in below:  

Mandelbrot on a cut-glass plate. Almond crescents in clouds of powdered sugar. Slices of strudel jeweled with fat raisin…   For subscribers (Subscribe here!)   Or log in below:  

Go ahead. Fly from a chair. Navigate your laptop over the Blue Lagoon, above massive ancient glaciers to the sharp bite …   For subscribers (Subscribe here!)   Or log in below:  

My mother is putting a bra on over her blouse. After she tears mail to pieces, it’s nice how the woman collecting scraps…   For subscribers (Subscribe here!)   Or log in below:  

Driving away from the hillside town down the long drop of Yucaipa Boulevard, then swooping onto the San Berdoo Freeway, …   For subscribers (Subscribe here!)   Or log in below:  

aerial landscapes Mario Giacomelli you picture Earth black white tear its colors off remind us that what mov…   For subscribers (Subscribe here!)   Or log in below:  

in the darkroom a photograph il Piazza di Santo Pietro Roma startled by a quick kiss between young lovers wal…   For subscribers (Subscribe here!)   Or log in below:  

the rain tastes salty, smells burnt, lands clear later the snowflakes seem to be avoiding falling on one another the sun…   For subscribers (Subscribe here!)   Or log in below:  

an empty 10 gallon trash bag windblown by as if animated don’t know what I’d be walking through, if my coat was made fro…   For subscribers (Subscribe here!)   Or log in below:  

            —Only you will know which one isn’t. A mirror is…   For subscribers (Subscribe here!)   Or log in below:  

I run. I throw my thick-toothed comb behind me. It becomes a forest dense with straight-trunked trees. …   For subscribers (Subscribe here!)   Or log in below:  

The blue heron flew wing-shadow low across my chest and my blue hunger was pulled into it’s wake, into the black stones …   For subscribers (Subscribe here!)   Or log in below:  

1. The way ahead was thick with black crawling spider bodies the size of mice. And long black slicks where other cars h…   For subscribers (Subscribe here!)   Or log in below:  

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After Ryuchi Sakamoto You have never been redundant Made to feel useless Perhaps in deepest March unwanted, uncall…   For subscribers (Subscribe here!)   Or log in below:  

wanting to sleep for at least two years a hot little hill on the right deltoid where the tall male nurse slid the formu…   For subscribers (Subscribe here!)   Or log in below: