Poetry

Verse in diverse forms, and fantastical in flavor.

Galatea’s Lament

By Jon Etter | Nov 26, 2021
From the stark white marble block shaped me into a flawless form to love, to pamper, to worship: an ideal, ...

The Dark Between Cells

By Erik Bergholm | Oct 8, 2021
Geothermal, the dark between cells, humid with the buried scent of Venusian fronds. A message scrawled by wanderers in the ...

sometimes skin

By Monica Mody | Aug 27, 2021
sometimes skin, we think stops world encumbers wind within            alertness we are small, we think listening risks too much mind ...

Grocery Store Lockdown

By Russell Reza-Khaliq Gonzaga | Apr 30, 2021
“Coyotes are being seen on the empty streets of San Francisco” —SFGATE, March 26, 2020 What Is today?Does it matter? Waking Up coughingIn ...

The Dream of the Green Cave

By Shannon Tate Jonas | Sep 19, 2020
Blood falls through his bodylike a pocketful of keys tossedinto the middle of the sea. Having dreamt last night of ...

A More Inventive Child’s Mind: Two Poems

By Al Russell | Aug 30, 2020
The poetry of North Carolina's Al Russell evokes the suburban legends, bewildering distractions and private grammar of free-range teenage life. ...