Category: Poetry
Issue 26 | Fall 2020
By
Katherine Fallon
| Poetry
I never forgot. Our home, too, would be riddled
with moth dust and carpet beetles, dried pipefish,
bones waiting to be articulated and identifiable.
Issue 26 | Fall 2020
By
Elizabeth Dingmann Schneider
| Poetry
She’s much too young to understand our connection to Hawaii,
the heritage we’re tied to by marriage
and the bonds of ohana
Issue 26 | Fall 2020
By
Maureen Cosgrove
| Poetry
Lurching in a wild, gesticulated dance, we
whack at meaty thoraxes. Loath to let them eat
the meager yield, meanly hoarded from the
browning field.
Issue 26 | Fall 2020
By
Matthew Bruce
| Poetry
A neon sneeze, fireflies
mist the jack pines.
Issue 25 | Summer 2020
By
Soleil Davíd
| Poetry
Imagine the gall not to need light at all,
as if you, blindcat, were not breaking
the surface of a subterranean lake,
but floating in outer space.
Issue 25 | Summer 2020
By
Jack J Chielli
| Poetry
Tomorrow a soft rain will moisten
the tangled peat gone dry
and hard between flood tides
and low water
Issue 25 | Summer 2020
By
Jack J Chielli
| Poetry
Remember the time I rushed into the house
and woke everyone, hurrying you and the kids
to the jeep? Where, Daddy? I wouldn’t say.
Are you sure? you asked.
Just come quickly.
Issue 25 | Summer 2020
By
Theadora Siranian
| Poetry
But then what? Isn’t a little mystery
the price we have to pay to see the magic? Yes,
everything is a corrective to everything else.