by Greg Hewett It's obvious beauty is a postage stamp, a composed self-portrait of Frida Kahlo wearing a simple necklace, an image chosen by the U...
by Marilyn Hacker We pace each other for a long time. I packed my anger with the beef jerky. You are the baby on the mountain. I am in a cold stream w...
by Betty Adcock Dusk and snow this hour in argument have settled nothing. Light persists, and darkness. If a star shines now, that shine is swallowed ...
by Yusef Komunyakaa I sit beside two women, kitty-corner to the stage, as Elvin's sticks blur the club into a blue fantasia. I thought my body had...
by Jayne Cortez I crisscrossed with Monk Wailed with Bud Counted every star with Stitt Sang "Don't Blame Me" with Sarah Wore a flower li...
by Mark Jarman To raise a stump of rock into a tower, rolling a stone in place as the years pass. Strangers who only know your silhouette bid it farew...
by Tom Chandler 812 feet, the highest point in Rhode Island You will not recognize any bald knob of granite or sheer cliff face silhouetted against cl...
by Tony Hoagland Sometimes I wish I were still out on the back porch, drinking jet fuel with the boys, getting louder and louder as the empty cans dro...
by Sharon Thesen Seamless afternoon to evening across the bridge beyond across the other bridge curving dark landfall lights upon the sea, our mother ...
by Patricia Spears Jones You looked Texas today road hard, scrubbed brush, blown tires gasoline islands But later California returned-fortune's po...