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Good Fences Wolf Conservation Center, NY by Dana Sonnenschein published in Kosmos Journal Something there is that doesn’t love a wall—...

Seventeen Funerals by Richard Blanco Poetry Foundation Seventeen suns rising in seventeen bedroom windows. Thirty-four eyes blooming open...

Nostalgia for a House in Turda, Romania by Gabriela Suarez published in Sliver of Stone, Issue 1, 2010 I rest my cheek on the peeling...

Séance by Brennan Bestwick published in Thrush, September 2016 A round of robins carries the drowned boys up into the cedars. They drape...

Work by Robert King published in Rattle, Summer 2008 The workmen over and above the fence fit bricks, lift mortar, slap it accurately in...

What Is Love If Not Rot? by Jane Wong online at the Seattle Public Library Seattle Writes web site I’ve been watching videos of rotting...

The saint takes the monster to church & the monster catches a cold by Mary Ann Clark published in The Scores Here is a body. There are...

Rain for Days by Diane Holland published in Crab Orchard Review And the sky closed, but now the TV weather radar screen shows the few...

Gaudy by Cassy Dorff published in Rust+Moth, Winter 2021 The bird book called him America’s most gaudy bird. Some said the king cakes in...

May and the Poets by Leigh Hunt There is May in books forever; May will part from Spenser never; May's in Milton, May's in Prior, May's...

Assisted Living by J. Allyn Rosser published in The Atlantic They sit at tables close enough around To nudge, reach for salt, and chat...

Dictionary Poem by Jill McDonough published in The Threepenny Review I love teaching people how to use a dictionary, watch them get...

Pluto by Grace Li published in Crazyhorse Online I’m sorry. It was a minor matter. All the ways that I was here and the ways I wasn’t. A...

The Easter Flower by Claude McKay Far from this foreign Easter damp and chilly My soul steals to a pear-shaped plot of ground, Where...

For Calling the Spirit Back From Wandering the Earth In Its Human Feet by Joy Harjo from Conflict Resolution From Holy Beings (W. W....

April by Linda Pastan A whole new freshman class of leaves has arrived on the dark twisted branches we call our woods, turning green...

published in her book, Code (Black Lawrence Press, 2020) Caves are not caves; they are thresholds into other worlds. We enter, blink into...

Gnats published in The Normal School, 2015 I can't tell why I think the dried corncobs in the gravel and the mattress under the tree were...

published in her book, The Dead Behind Us (1986, Norton) I learned to be honest the way I learned to swim dropped into the inevitable my...

published in Cider Press Review Hunger by Dianne Stepp after In Memory’s Kitchen: A Legacy from the Women of Terezin They dream of yeast...