Since I, By My Good Fortune ~ Veronica Gambara Since I, by my good fortune, return to look on you, sweet hills, and you, waters cool and clear, and you, gracious site, whom it much pleased nature to make adorned and fair, I can indeed call fortunate the day and ever praise the longing that […]
Love Poem ~ Susan Wheeler My mother wouldn’t stand up to wave. My father made certain the door locked behind me. But when I went for your door you came too. Your mouth made a flute of my arm, its music a glass on the past. My love, my love, went its song. Now there […]
A Game of Hot Potato Starring My Heart as the Potato ~ Amy Saul-Zerby Sometimes all I want is to be a person who takes comfort in hot baths sometimes all I want is to be a person who takes comfort in anything sometimes all I want is to be a person who takes I […]
Poem 16 from “18 Poems” ~ Tano Festa Rome, July 28, 1979 My alabaster forbear told me about Georgian cows about cold nights in Leningrad where the moon is like a silver plate and wind sweeps snow that turns to blue, compact crystal
From “Literary Sexts” ~ Caitlyn Siehl Do not fall in love with people like me. I will take you to museums, and parks, and monuments, and kiss you in every beautiful place, so that you can never go back to them without tasting me like blood in your mouth. I will destroy you in the […]
