Ekphrastic Poems – By Debasish Lahiri
Empty City
Full of my city,
I sit
empty.
If I could visit
all the places
where I had emptied myself
and rummage through
that dear rubble of hours
so many had cast...
Poems by Taylor Dibbert
House of Cards
Getting married
Too quickly
Means building
A life inside
A house of cards
And then everything
Falls apart
And things burst
Into flames
And he hopes
That he'll
Always remember
The...
Poems by Michael Kfoury
Artistic Integrity
Our wedding album is going to be an album,
a debut L.P because I want to spend your father’s money
on something stupid...
Poems by Arvilla Fee
The Past
“Fear not for the future,
weep not for the past.”
~Percy Bysshe Shelley
Is it water,
a slow wearing away
of a hardened stone?
Is it fire,
burning down the...
Two Poems by Ralph Culver
The New Man
At night, preparing for sleep, he faces himself in the mirror, and the image before him becomes gradually more foreign, more remote,...
Poems by Prathibha Nandakumar
Paint me a forest
First, I said I am a kaleidoscope.
If he turned me around, he could
discover changing patterns and colours.
He said he...
Poems by John Grey
The Living and the Dead
It is a river that bears
drowning victims
as well as the souls
of Algonquin ancestors,
and its current
is endless liquid...
Poems by Peter Magliocco
2-Faced Shooter
Learning to rhyme with the dawn of in-Hu-Man,
Tasting what revels in itself as a child watches
Me stumbling across the street, late for work,...
Three Poems by Charlie Brice
Found and Lost
I want to return to the dirt road that led to our home
on Walloon Lake—where every weed that survived
backhoe and snowplow garnered...
Poems by Charlie Brice
The Future Past
We strolled along a clay path in Frick Park where leaves fell
like heroes’ confetti and where our past rambled toward us
from...