Theme in Yellow by Carl Sandburg I spot the hills With yellow balls in autumn. I light the prairie cornfields Orange and tawny gold...

The Survivor by Primo Levi Once more he sees his companions' faces Livid in the first faint light, Gray with cement dust, Nebulous in the...

What Haunts Us by Annie Phan published in Rust & Moth, Autumn 2020 In the villages of my grandmother, they warn you of the child who...

Plums by Gillian Clarke When their time comes they fall without wind, without rain. They seep through the trees’ muslin in a slow...

To the Young Who Want to Die by Gwendolyn Brooks Sit down. Inhale. Exhale. The gun will wait. The lake will wait. The tall gall in the...

About Almonds and Ambergris by Lorna Goodison Atlanta Review, Spring/Summer 2019 issue There is a perfume rising off the sea today. A...

Residual Memory of Mercy by Nicole Rollender published in typishly Everything is the hopesprung phantom of something else. I married that...

Rural Gothic by Despy Boutris published in Zócalo Public Square, April 16, 2021 Loneliness thick as the fields of wheat. Wheat I walk...

On the Turning of the Year by Karen An-Hwei Lee published in Spoon River Poetry Review, Issue 43.2, Winter 2018 To witness five...