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Freeway 280 by Lorna Dee Cervantes Las casitas near the gray cannery, nestled amid wild abrazos of climbing roses and man-high red...

A Little Song by Amy Lowell When you, my Dear, are away, away, How wearily goes the creeping day. A year drags after morning, and night...

Tiny Ghost Bundle by Bridget Clawson published in Hobo Camp Review, Winter Issue # 33 -- Featuring a poetry tribute to Tom Petty Do you...

In Praise of Okra by January Gill O'Neil published in her 2009 book, Underlife (CavanKerry Press) No one believes in you like I do. I sit...

Lower East Side Brucha by Rachel Trousdale published in you are here, 2013 Blessed art thou, Lord our God, king of the universe, who...

The Reemergence Of The Noose by Patricia Smith published in Asheville Poetry Review, Volume 15, Issue 1 Some lamp sputters its dusty...

Deathly by Rodney Jones published in his book, Imaginary Logic (2011, Houghton Miffllin) I am alone, driving through St. Louis, listening...

I Come From A Place So Deep Inside America It Can't Be Seen by Kari Gunter-Seymour published in her 2020 book, A Place So Deep Inside...

Iron Woman by Diane Glancy published in her 1990 book by the same name I knew I came from a different place, a story cut apart with...

Saint Francis and the Sow by Galway Kinnell The bud stands for all things, even for those things that don’t flower, for everything...

Text for D.H. by Andrea Hollander published in Kosmos Journal, Autumn 2021 My friend tells me in a text that his cat has stopped eating....

Mrs. Buddha Calls on Mrs. God by Patricia McMillen published in New Ohio Review, 2000 Tea or coffee? asks Mrs. God, hopeful for an excuse...

Since Nine O’Clock by Constantine P. Cavafy Half past twelve. Time has gone by quickly since nine o'clock when I lit the lamp and sat...

What It Was Like by Catherine Klatzker published in Split This Rock 2016, 2nd Prize in their Abortion Rights Poetry Contest The world...

The Tool Shed by Kasey Jueds published in Superstition Review How can I explain the way I kept coming back—to that box of trapped shadows...

Four Definitions For the Use of Time by Carolyn Moore published in Cider Press Review 1 Your book club neighbor chats across the fence of...

Moths & Origami Children by Ojo Taiye published in Whale Road Review, Winter 2018 i taste my mother’s sickness in my mouth & analyze the...

The Man Moth by Elizabeth Bishop published in The Complete Poems, 1926-1979 Man-Moth: Newspaper misprint for “mammoth.” Here, above,...

The Empty Pool by Sue Ellen Thompson published in The Summerset Review, Spring 2010 This is the place where my sisters and I lay all...

Love Powm by Margot Wizansky published in Poetry East, 2004 All winter you contract-- one tiller, one boat, one bay, one light that shows...