Category: Family Poems

Radio by Michael Vander Does

Frequencies compete
Bouncing in and out
Speaking over each other

think of warm baked bread
melting butter with crunchy crust
think of casseroles one after the other

January afternoon after school

Grandmother sick at heart

No taller than my knee
when you challenge
your first ocean.

LEVI & ME by Cynthia Lewis-Jones My genes are customized denim: unique, a one-off design. The Left leg is

It’s her fault by John Steffen Because of the moon Wife and I got in a fight when I dragged

Fourteen by Morgan Rae Glazier During a Sunday drive, our mother stopped our white Dodge Spirit at the base of

Come Around Back Now by Eric Dittmar How are you ever Going to get out from under this? It hunts

A Patriarchally Deteriorating Company Versus “Don’t Go Policy” by Sarah Gamutan Superiors stuck in corridors, half blind to us wee

The Preserver by Dawn Cunningham Luebke Salamonie Reservoir :hundreds of yards of shimmering leaves bubble trails in my eye. Dead