If a minimalist poet
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Month: March 2012
The Lion Pauses by henry 7. reneau, jr.
The Lion Pauses by henry 7. reneau, jr. Sunday, February 21st standing at the podium, The Audubon Ballroom in Harlem Preachin to the choir & pauses In a moment between tick & tock, a d’j’ vu that hovered A glimpse of repetition, Epiphany that sowed sorrow in the stutter of his heart; His blood recounts…
Hungry Words by Aleisha Goodman
Hungry Words by Aleisha Goodman We are split in different directions that our pride and egos will not let us touch. keeping us at a distance that not even our words can reach They will be spoken then evaporate in thin air as they leave our hungry lips like the ambers of a cigarette They…
Things we know by Dave Margoshes
Everybody knows the man in the moon
is blue cheese, that dogs keep the sun at bay
in winter, that fireflies are the souls
of the dearly departed, flickering through
Chino and Chambray by Donal Mahoney
Chino and Chambray by Donal Mahoney Forty years older than I, Charles, in his tweed cap, stands starched in gray chino and blue chambray. For more than a year his broad tie has let the same iridescent duck fly against a vermillion sky. Like a Vatican Guard he oversees the parking lot I cut through…
Emily by Cassandra Langer
Emily by Cassandra Langer So shall I rain down kisses Upon you tracing the sweet cascading Line of your throat’s curving Water flowing towards all the Yet to be discovered places My mind travels looking at you Eyes sliding away from imagining Through the half shadows From which you are emerging The old fear shoots…
Amsterdam Wide Dreams by Alessandro Cusimano
Amsterdam Wide Dreams by Alessandro Cusimano a lovely girl brings home her puppet boyfriend and plays with him the tall convex space appears turquoise draws a sinuous line sensual on the perimeter steeped in the events of others is the profile of a sea wave villain of the most beautiful seawater ensures the persistence of…