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: M-O
Readers, Please
By Cate Marvin
Recall the white room I took you to
when you could not breathe?
Reader, please, it’s called chivalry.
Stopping for Gas Near Cheat Lake
By Cate Marvin
Miles of white, palest skin,
and the slash of the road through it. Who named this lake,
Music
By Thomas Masiello
The orchestrations of sunrise
much like the tune, abstract from the outset,
(this is the nature of music)
At the Bandshell by the River
By Donna Masini
This place, too, has its own integrity:
split, ruined, abandoned
walls of chipped blue cursed
A Palestinian, a Sudanese, and the third was a Moroccan
By Monzer Masri
it’s impossible for me even to guess
since as they say
he really has no country of his own.
Missing in Action
By Dan Masterson
three wars ago, pleading for her bambino,
expecting to see him young and warm
To a Doctor Who Would Not See Me
By Dan Masterson
Picture me now, my breath hot
on your kitchen window,
Whatever You Say, Henry
By Dan Masterson
He feels the catheter as penis,
is pleased with its sudden growth,
and goes to great lengths fondling
Abyss
By Melcion Mateu
You and I, when we sleep, we’re like whales
because fish swim out of my mouth
and you dishevel the seaweed.
Colette
By Harry Mathews
You acted patiently.
You turned away from the play‚
Which was always beginning;