It is the morning of the world
I want to tell you about,
my world of east Tennessee red clay
and crabgrass in its spiky rosette patches,
-Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 1947 by Robin Chapman on the Proximity Magazine website.
Rewind By Sabrina Presnell Rockoff
And you would have opened a window
To let in the noise of the street
And smell of the city
-Rewind By Sabrina Presnell Rockoff on the Smoky Blue Literary website.
Retreating Snow by Reid McGrath
Like an old man dragging his long white hair
out of the lawn, back toward the forest’s shade,
the snow retreats,
-Retreating Snow By Reid McGrath on The Society of Classical Poets website.
Sixteen By Cynthia Dewi Oka
the choice
erspac to give away
what you will not learn
erspacerspacers to live without
-Sixteen By Cynthia Dewi Oka on the Bedfellows Magazine website.
Pray For Peace by Ellen Bass
Make the brushing of your hair
a prayer, every strand its own voice
singing in the choir on your head..
-Pray For Peace by Ellen Bass on The Sun Magazine website.
Metaphor As Method by Kelly Cherry
one must admit a metaphor
is by far the shortest distance between two points.
-Metaphor As Method by Kelly Cherry on The Syzygy Poetry Journal website.
Crow Mother (for Frida Kahlo) by Linda Rodriguez
I will curve my claws into paintbrushes
and carve my revenge into the souls
of those who wrong me.
I abstain from forgiveness
of grave accidents. Neither Diego nor God
shall escape me.
-Crow Mother (for Frida Kahlo) by Linda Rodriguez on The Pedestal Magazine website.
59 Goodbyes by Rachel Kessler
Goodbye tired all the time
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Goodbye talking about tired all the time
-59 Goodbyes by Rachel Kessler on the Poetry Northwest website.
Hidden Things By James Haug
A wire fence framed the Mooney’s yard
more to keep in than to keep out.
I loved the little girl, even her retarded
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brother spooning muddy water from a wagon.
Howdy was a song
I’d croon to their snarling white dog.
-Hidden Things by James Haug on the Turnrow website.
Fifty Shades of Grey by Beatrice Mora
He sounds
out the rain.
-Fifty Shades of Grey by Beatrice Mora on the Ninth Letter website.
