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published in her book, Drowning in the Floating World (Press 53, 2020) That First Night, the Hospital was the only thing left standing....

Chromesthesia by Kelly R. Samuels published in Summerset Review Your voice, singing, calls up green, green of the grasses bent on that...

anyone lived in a pretty how town (with up so floating many bells down) spring summer autumn winter he sang his didn't he danced his did....

Some Assembly May Be Required by Laura LeHew published in The Fem 2016 you are in denial your eyes are hyacinth red you page through your...

The Colonel by Carolyn Forché published in her 1981 book, The Country Between Us What you have heard is true. I was in his house. His...

Quaker Oats by Rita Dove The grain elevators have stood empty for years. They used to feed an entire nation of children. Hunched in red...

Foal by Lois P. Jones published in The Lascaux Review In your next life you will be birthed in needles of hoarfrost, your eyes still in...

To Walt Whitman in Heaven by Betsy Sholl from her book Late Psalm Things that look good and aren't: high fashion, Manifest Destiny, limp...

Wild Geese by Mary Oliver You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert...

Zero Gravity by Eric Gamalinda The dry basin of the moon must have held the bones of a race, radiant minerals, or something devoid of...

The Execution of Henry Wirz—November 10, 1865 by Daniel Nathan Terry published in Capturing the Dead, and can also be found on the Split...

Seconds in a Momentary Science by Kristina Martinez Another breath, deeper, undo these buttons to fit the stethoscope, calipers, forceps,...

“Hope” is the thing with feathers - That perches in the soul - And sings the tune without the words - And never stops - at all - And...

What’s Going to Kill You by Jayne Marek published in Black Horse Review (January 2, 2021) How secretive it can be, swimming the long...

published in Ponder Review, Spring 2017, Volume 1, Issue 1 When We Became Trees by Mary Christine Kane We saw them first on our walk....

Count Down by Robin Morgan Survival is the final offer that arrives at the eleventh hour just when pain to the tenth power would kill you...

Wildlife by Heather Treseler winner, 2021 WB Yeats Society Contest All strut and gibbering, wattles and caruncles, tom turkeys parade at...

published in A Geography of Poets, Edited by Edward Field The Fall of the House of Usher by Reed Whittemore It was a big boxy wreck of a...

published in Poetry, March 1980 I was born in Cologne. That word again: Cologne. I let my mouth fill with it as my mother did when the...

published in Simulacra, winner of the 2016 Yale Series of Younger Poets Temptation of the Composer by Airea D. Matthews Oh Shepherd, our...