Every Writer - Every Day Poems

Snow starved by Shweta Garg

I was snow starved all this time
Was eager for the fall to
Skirt in its random leaves and make way
For the white candy floss

I wish for one day
I could be someone else
To say what they say
To feel what they felt

Despite a notice in the paper
Requesting contributions
In lieu of flowers,
They continued to arrive,

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

He rolls off the sofa
Stumbles into the kitchen
The table’s a riot

2 a.m. by Michael Pacholski so still a hummingbird fluttered only once in its sleep and was hushed by nest-neighbors

Twin blossoms bowed
by the weight of white beauty

Untitled by Austin Bagwell All I want is to lose myself, to drown in the ink. If life could be

Fall.

15 centuries
into mosaic
hammered gold

Valentine’s Day by Martha Hayes After our birthday party, I took the picture. You and your new bicycle: a shiny