“Before I Understood This Place”
By Poetry Issue 120
I feel I’m floating on a pond
of sadness,
Once Upon a Time
By Poetry Issue 120
the children
were everywhere,
some you gave birth to
and some you didn’t,
On the Fugitive Letters
By Poetry Issue 120
The Z falls from doze
waking us to the forested creature inside
Containment
By Poetry Issue 120
I could not tell you the story of my living.
Terrific tsunami or closed cabinet of heart.
Moses on the Well
By Poetry Issue 120
I let them choose the rock from which the water would flow.
Read MoreNever Mind
By Poetry Issue 120
Called across, calling;
With a receptor there.
Woman of Song
By Poetry Issue 120
Just like you go looking for the rainbow.
Read MoreMountain Plover
By Poetry Issue 120
Isle of femur. Of scapular curl. Isle of skull.
Read MoreMine Own Tom Wyatt
By Poetry Issue 120
Starve, he said,
attraction’s fever, fill your mouth with prayer
instead.
Marine Forecast
By Poetry Issue 120
I breathe the meadow smell of storm-turned sea.
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