Poetry

hands planting seeds in the dirt
Poetry
Matthew Pullar

Adam Talks With Sisyphus About Gardening

Sisyphus, I forgot to say that, thoughthe sun always dies before I’ve finished,and, when sweat and soil sting my brow, I’ve wishedthese weeds would be

Poetry
Jiliian Burden

Absolution

Church bells rung candles ligted welcome offered we stand to sing …

Poetry
Haley Hodges Schmid

Lord of Light and Dark

who maketh stars to leap in the gaped black mouth of heaven …

Poetry
Cody Adams

Choosing Stones

The last thing the Gittite saw was a laughable pebble flung by a gnat of a boy …

Poetry
Paul J. Willis

Compulsion

After our home burned down in the Tea Fire, I started picking up trash on the streets …

Poetry
Brian Phipps

Aeronaut

We’d become accustomed to the wonders that he worked–the wheel that drives the mill …

Poetry
Alex Arthurs

Broken Balm

Life does not consist of accumulating small comforts …

Poetry
Marjorie Maddox

Sowing

Yes, the seeds are small, the ground hard and rocky …

Poetry
Jerry Harp

In the Precincts of the Holy

The room, replete with what is about to happen, is full as well with coughing …