by James Dickey | Feb 11, 2017 | Poetry
This issue’s special feature is in honor of the gifted poet James Dickey, who left us earlier this year to become the poet laureate of heaven, where his words belong. The Leap by James Dickey The only thing I have of Jane MacNaughtonIs one instant of a...
by James Dickey | Feb 11, 2017 | Poetry
THE BEE BY JAMES DICKEY To the football coaches of Clemson College, 1942 One dot Grainily shifting we at roadside and The smallest wings coming along the rail fence out Of the woods one dot of all that green. It now Becomes flesh-crawling then the quite still Of...
by MichaelM | Feb 11, 2017 | Poetry
A Welcome Home Not of His Choosing I know this isn’t how He saw himself coming home Nor did those Who worried about him Who loved him Who worried about his night and day But I can’t help but believe He would have been proud As the flashing lights From...
by Nelda "Penny" Sustaire Mathews | Feb 11, 2017 | Poetry
It is the middle of the night and sleep again has flown. I was looking for my poems and still have not found them. That is rather worrisome, but I know they are here somewhere. I did find something wonderful, though. I found a couple of file...
by MichaelM | Feb 11, 2017 | Poetry
Birthdays That End in Zero Somehow the view changes With some birthdays Especially those that end in zeros Hmmm Some more than others The perspective changes The view is so very different It is like the T-shirts That Dan and I had made When we found ourselves In that...
by MichaelM | Feb 11, 2017 | Poetry
Singing Softly With Mary This is not going to be a maudlin bitAbout how the world has gone to hell And how all the good is slowing leaking away It is just a note that Mary died And somehow that leaves a hole in an unexpected place Oh, I still have...
by MichaelM | Feb 11, 2017 | Poetry
Johnny You grew tallAnd that was a surpriseMaybe just because I always think of youAs smallFor that is how you wereAnd always remainExcept for nowFor this momentOf thought and haze There is a crinkle in your eyesI think I saw...
by MichaelM | Feb 11, 2017 | Poetry
Families Families are more than relatives Held together By blood and shared genes Memories entwine them Sharing more than lives Bind them With means Beyond the skill Of surgical knowledge Shared visions And dreams Hopes and fears And...
by MichaelM | Feb 11, 2017 | Poetry
Drill Sergeant He could run all day Backwards As he yelled out cadence Or screamed at the shitbirds Who just couldn’t stay in step Everyone tried to stay out of contact With those glaring brown eyes No one wanted him in their face With the brim of his hat...
by MichaelM | Feb 11, 2017 | Poetry
A Ring Tone for Traci Squandering time This morning when I need to be working But the desire just isn’t there So let’s play How I got to ring tones I don’t know But I began looking to for custom Ring tones For different...
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