Poem of the Day
Yellow Striped Pajamas
By Shamsher Bahadur Singh
walking silently on his paws, he emerges from the semidarkness and disappears into it.
Poetry: 2000s
Weird Winter
By Lynn Melnick
They are wrong: one can die from heat
or one can die weeded and bland. Shoes
will forget they walked ever down steps
Shade
By Lynn Melnick
He could come back soon, unpacked
knife to threaten, rough-grabbed
pout and piquant blade. I am always
Champion
By Lynn Melnick
As a doll I flew on a plane
for a lover, convinced his fists
uncovering my blood meant: win.
I Love the Dictionary Meanings for Kern
By John McKernan
In the OED
“a rough Irish foot soldier”
Ben Jonson
By John McKernan
claimed Spenser
wrote “no language”
In the Language of the Lakota
By John McKernan
Omaha
means both “flowing against the current” &
“spring is near”
My Father’s Marble Collection Hundreds
By John McKernan
Every single one gone Even the gray ones
the color of his eyes The black one
carved from coal shade of his hair
An Essay on the Body
By Anthony Lacavaro
As fate would have it, I showered
at the time, late in the morning.
The evidence of certain postulates pooled around.
The Advantages of Being a World-Class Athlete
By Anthony Lacavaro
In the end, when the doctors circle around
like doctors, they can find nothing wrong,
Bestiary
By Anthony Lacavaro
The Passion plays
its faces, all of Christ, after being scourged.
Christ the lamb swings from a felled tree.