Category: Poetry

Supreme Decisions  –Jim Piatt Promises, discarded, broken, lie beside other dusty laws of the past, trampled under the grime of ideology: Hopes, shattered lives thrown into the pit of Indifference born of greed…ignorance, untried principles: Compassion wilting in the darkness of shattered dreams, kindness melted into the fiscal indifference of our time, all under the…

July Web Feature THE TRUMPETER –John Grey No one noticed his brown eyes, receding hairline, or the goatee poking out of his chin. He was only ever the trumpet he played. On stage, that was understandable. His mouth was wide open and brass. His fingers, valve slides and buttons. But, even on the street, he…

Cupide and his lyste of arwes or The path to my degree My first love forgot to love me back so I buried him and found another. My second love imagined he were a Russian spy – he faked his death. In good fashion, I pretended to mourn and moved on before he could resurface.…

February Web Feature INFINITE KARMIC LORE from Amazonians Have a Hundred Words for Green by Gerard Sarnat Here we are living in bliss on the “D” type exact epicenter of the San Andreas Fault’s apocalyptic Richter earthquake risk. Redwoods almost as ancient as the ancientest dinosaur from the Triassic era nearly a quarter of a…

January Web Feature Your Pet Turtle –William Doreski We agree that nothing is absolute, not the dark of closets, not clock-faces, not the stink of cooking fat. But we disagree on the exceptions. You place your plastic crucifix on the wall and claim that it represents the ultimate. I prop Wallace Stevens’ Collected Poems against…