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Poetry
Poetry
A Query for Friend Fox
Did you ever laugh with joy, Friend, / at the beauty of God’s world, / the sheer extravaganza of it?
Nancy L. Bieber
Poetry
Where Mothers Hung the Clothes
On a fall afternoon in my warm kitchen, I bake a frittata. / Fried onions, red potatoes, cream, cheddar, eggs
Joyce Victor
Poetry
Watering the Crops
Tomatoes big as breasts, he brags, / raised in topsoil dung and peat.
Gary Stein
Poetry
For Hildegard
Her twelfth season tending / to my garden, she turns the soil
Joan Mazza
Poetry
Oranges
When my smell came back, I caught / a whiff of lapsang souchong steeping
John Minczeski
Poetry
Garden Fires
In May I pulled away winter’s weeds, / spread manure, and fastened new
Elaine Reardon
Poetry
Ollie Ollie
Giggling, she runs from the family room couch / where I sit and count, both hands over my eyes.
Carl “Papa” Palmer
Poetry
Little Gospel
At that time Jesus said, / Plant trees easy
James Littwin
Poetry
Kaddish for Death and Childbirth קדיש
Her breath rose and fell / spaces between in and out growing wider
Carole Fults
Poetry
Melody
I swallow my sorrow, but cannot / digest it, so I tranquilize it into
Mike Wilson
Poetry
Elbow Grease
He tosses his life’s work in Tuesday’s trash / and corkscrews down a hole of despair,
Mike Wilson
Poetry
Hiding and Seeking
Fingering the small, smooth stones / in my bag, we ride the subway to Queens,
Anne Maren-Hogan
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