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Category / Poetry

Facing Turtleback

By Anita Leigh Holladay

Great mountain, gold
and green! Look at you,
looming above small farms
where island boys grew to manhood

Continue reading… "Facing Turtleback"

Remington

By JoEllen Moldoff

I heard a rap at the door.

There it was, suspended
like a do-not-disturb sign.

Mother’s old portable turned up last night.

Continue reading… "Remington"

Nuestra Senora de la Salud

By JoEllen Moldoff

She is becoming
more beautiful each day
like ripening fruit.
The yellows, oranges,

Continue reading… "Nuestra Senora de la Salud"

Conversation with a Dead Person

By Elsie McFarland

Every so often my ex-husband comes over,
still boyish in his advancing years.
I catch him up on our grown children,
the grandkid’s music lessons, soccer games,

Continue reading… "Conversation with a Dead Person"

Cedar Chest

By Linda Brainerd

The cedar chest smelled musty and forbidding.
It held props for her part, she who passed off-stage
leaving bits and pieces
of that act: a yellowed collar, sachets,

Continue reading… "Cedar Chest"

Line Dancing

By Jan Loudin

A red shirt bridges the prejudice
of dark jeans and white sheets
strung on a line between
back porch and crooked hickory pole.

Continue reading… "Line Dancing"

Shelter

By Laurie Junkins

We come together these dark mornings,
you at your work, I at mine,
scanning papers, making notes,
the rustle of pages, clicks of the keyboard,

Continue reading… "Shelter"

The Hunt

By Laurie Junkins

The boy picks through windblown woods,
footsteps quiet on moss and damp needles, eyes
scanning the forest floor for green maple or oak.
His grandfather’s Laguiole jackknife

Continue reading… "The Hunt"

Love Letter to My Sons

By Laurie Junkins

I watch at the front window
as you move in unison between the trees
then down the long, curved driveway
to where flooding from our neighbor’s pond

Continue reading… "Love Letter to My Sons"

Evening Dance

By Susan Hendrick

Tonight, at the magic hour,
I’ll be joining the hummingbirds
Taking my shower in the misty spray of the watering hose
Dancing bare breasted up the rainbows of sparkling water beads

Continue reading… "Evening Dance"

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