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another spring sonnet [by Amy Lemmon]
Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life. –Proverbs 4:23 As March unveils its well-worn wonders, bluntedby frost-heave cynicism, sleeping sensesprick to life. The nerves of lust…
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“This Is It” [by Nicole Santalucia]
This Is It I took the day off and got laidI mean I was laid off from my jobso I got laidI got offI also collected $200when I passed GOon 42nd Street and 5th…
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Taking poems for a walk [Heather Christle]
I live in a place that is populated by people with ideas. (I bet you do too.) One of the most recent ideas that has crept into my life was originally inspired by La…
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“No More Access to her Underpants” [by John Updike]
No More Access to Her Underpants Her red dress stretched across the remembered smallof her dear bare back, bare for me no more,that once so nicely bent itself in bedto take my thrusts and…
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Personality Test # 2
As you rush down the subway steps and onto the downtown platform, you are pushed by a woman, who fights her way onto the R train while you struggle to maintain your balance. Then…
