Poetry

Poem – Martha and Mel Wait for the Elevator (By Donal Mahoney)

I died from a rattlesnake bite and found myself in line with other zombies in front of a bank  of elevators, the doors opening  and closing as if by metronome.   Every time a door opened a voice called the names of 12 zombies who ...

Poem – Outsiders (By Robert Beveridge)

Outsiders The Club sits in the back in the middle talks over old times it's an amoeba that splits every once in a while pieces go off to New York or Indianapolis but always pull back together up here a ...

Poem – Oddfellow (By Donal Mahoney)

Homer’s never owned a gun, thinks they should be banned along with bombs and missiles.   Doesn’t need them in the river that flows between his mind and his emotions   where every now and then he pushes someone in  for ...

Poem – Quality Control (By Chanacee Ruth-Killgore)

Quality Control By Chanacee Ruth-Killgore This, not that. No, the other way. Fix it! Turn it around; make it the same. Shh... don't speak! Don't question or think. Remember, conformity is the name of the game ...

Poem – A Sisyphus Moment (By Donal Mahoney)

A Sisyphus Moment   There’s a force that makes  a boulder hard to push up a hill.  And there’s always a boulder  and always a hill when it comes to   helping the poor find something  to eat, somewhere to live, a job they ...

Poem – Restless in holidays (By Narges Rothermel)

Restless in holidays Trace of white frost on green grass, red ribbons on the fences, menorahs on the lawns, red, green, and silver lights on pine trees manmade icicles on front eaves It is that time of the year again ...

Poem – Majestic (By Alozor Michael Ikechukwu)

MAJESTIC Like my shadows Yesterday's echoes roped me I, racing the fastest Farthest from the takeoff line At each turn of the track. Suited in fatigue Like a lost bird at sea Nowhere to rest wings Dazed, dizzy, disoriented A ...

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 – Of Meringues and Mindsets (By A.J. Huffman)

Of Meringues and Mindsets   My mother used to make lemon pies when somebody died.  “Because my pies were beautiful, all fluffy and white,” she said as if it all made perfect sense. And I wondered at her logic.  Was ...

Poem – FRANKFURT PIG (By Joseph Cavera)

FRANKFURT PIG (By Joseph Cavera) There once was a pig from Frankfurt, Who found he had grime on his shirt, He believed neither eye As he sullied a silk tie After spending a day, or two, in the dirt Now ...