Poetry
Poem – LOST NO MORE? (By Ray Gallucci)
LOST NO MORE? Atlantis's legend’s a mystery no more -- Just Isles Santorini remain from its shore. Volcano that blew, fifteen hundred B.C., Replaced most of Thera with nothing but sea.* Seems Plato was right, even though off by ten ...
Poem – By Mistake He Later Said (By Donal Mahoney)
Every once in awhile over the last 40 years Ralph wondered what might have happened to the guy who had moved in with the mother of his children and drank all the time. He remembered the kids saying when they were small the fellow got up ...
Poem – WHERE NONE HAS GONE BEFORE (By Ray Gallucci)
WHERE NONE HAS GONE BEFORE Though we arrived just yesterday In geologic time, Appears we’ve had too much to say, And none of it sublime. Repeated cometary blasts, The forces needed to Turn species into fossils past When time was ...
Poem – I Shall Leave (By Wafula p’Khisa)
When, out of exhaustion To set hurries the sun; I will be on toes To respond to call of time. I shall leave With the little I'd have reaped From the golden stool of prominence; I shall leave Behind the ...
Poem – A Husband Falters (By Donal Mahoney)
A Husband Falters Better take his wife to lunch after what he said yesterday. A slip of the tongue. But where to take her? The Chinese buffet? The Indian buffet? Maybe the Japanese place. She likes sushi and tempura. But when he ...
Poem – FOOTPRINTS (By Brian T. Marshall)
FOOTPRINTS Brian T. Marshall I spotted them on my third day there. A question mark in the sand. First off a little background. I was never supposed to be there alone, walking on that beach. But Karen had decided, two ...
Poem – Why Won’t You Smile For Me (By David Hernandez)
Why Won’t You Smile For Me I took a snapshot at a place I hardly knew of someone I almost grew close too. Though it was night, the stars gave me plenty of light. I saw two women dressed in ...
Poem – Suspended (By Austin Alexis)
I pushed through a revolving door and stepped into a dimension new to me, a realm without gravity’s pull-- absent the physical. For a few seconds, the cosmos adopted me, dissolved my skin, made me one with it, poured itself ...
Poem – Gender Inequality (By Donal Mahoney)
The uncommon is common in America today. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, Seinfeld might have said to George had they seen the latest Glamour Magazine naming Caitlyn Jenner Woman of the Year. The public seems to agree. No ...
Poem – Tangled (By David Russell)
Tangled Drawing the cross slices tramline nuggets, Sizing out torture’s cavity, Wrenching the hopeful – slashes, threads all. The anchor is split, tossed on a shroud, The elements burgeoning right. The chain is rusted, marking starfish, Shakes in a ticking ...
