Scars by Truing Tran (published in North Dakota Quarterly, Summer 1993) My father’s body is a map, a record of his journey. He carries a...

Tired Sex by Chana Bloch (published in The Atlantic , December 1997 ) Trying to strike a match in a matchbook that has lain all winter under the woodpile: damp sulfur on sodden cardboard. I catch myself yawning. Through the window I watch that sparrow the cat keeps batting around. Like turning the pages of a book the teacher assigned— You ought to read it, she said. It’s great literature.

Sunday Morning, Cumberland Gap by A.E. Stringer published in Still, Summer 2015 Black cat appears under my roadside picnic table....

Autumn by Siegfried Sassoon October's bellowing anger breaks and cleaves The bronzed battalions of the stricken wood In whose lament I...

Autumnal by Louise Glück (from her 1976 book, Descending Figure, The Ecco Press, NY) Public sorrow, the acquired gold of the leaf, the...

October by Robert Frost O hushed October morning mild, Thy leaves have ripened to the fall; Tomorrow’s wind, if it be wild, Should waste...

Middle-Aged Karaoke by Timothy Houghton Published in SNReview, Spring/Summer 2008 A big woman jumps out of a booth deftly, avoiding...

The Fury of Beautiful Bones by Anne Sexton (from The Complete Poems, Houghton Mifflin, 1982) Sing me a thrush, bone. Sing me a nest of...

Storm Ending by Jean Toomer (from his 1923 poetic novel, Cane) Thunder blossoms gorgeously above our heads, Great, hollow, bell-like...