Category Archives: Poetry

Deborah Davitt This Sacred Earth Golden Shovel of “The Wife’s Lament” (ll. 33b-36):      All my friends dwell in the dirt,      I loved them while they lived,      now guarding their graves,      when I go forth alone      in the darkness of daybreak … Continue reading →

Linda Claborn Clarke The Seeders In the beginning of elliptical existence before the universe was complete, they sent us out two by two, supreme males and females traveling in egg-shaped crafts across the great unknown: a blackness, an unexplored bottomless … Continue reading →

Sheikha A. Zojaj   I tried catching a mirage at forenoon and realized my timing was off and slept till after sunrise, sleep still in my eyes from the night before I burned in the dark. I had tried to … Continue reading →

Hilary Biehl Tea Leaves   She doesn’t really want to know. She just likes tea. The heat against her palms, the rising vapor’s flux. The objects: papered canister, pot, little cups. The ritual. Each swallow of reflected sky.   But … Continue reading →

Gabriel Ertsgaard Paul Bunyan and the Whirlwind Mountain (click on the above link to view the interactive poem) _______________ Gabriel Ertsgaard is an English lecturer at Kean University. His poetry, fiction, and literary criticism have appeared in Enchanted Conversation, Soul-Lit, … Continue reading →

WC Roberts The Honored raise high the blade, plunge it down honor to the gods sated only by a child’s heart lift high this offering; sing solemn supplications the priest in green feather boa gives the climate change his blessing, … Continue reading →

Rebecca Buchanan Oak, Ash, and Crow   i know that the trees move   i am the last in the last house on the last street in the last city fallen to oak and ash and thorn   when i … Continue reading →

Ann K. Schwader A City Built On Bones   A city built on bones cannot deny its origins: the skull racks & the blood, the ones who perished never knowing why.   Cathedrals painting faith across the sky arose from … Continue reading →