Thursday 29 February 2024
Stephen Knox: The Shipping Forecast
Wednesday 28 February 2024
Carly Heider: Spiralling
Tuesday 27 February 2024
Richard Collins: No Longer Drunk on the Road at Night
Monday 26 February 2024
James Kangas: Promise
Saturday 24 February 2024
Kelly Sargent: Before Blue Was a Colour
Friday 23 February 2024
Janet Guastavino: The Source
Thursday 22 February 2024
Petar Penda: Silence
Wednesday 21 February 2024
David Q. Hutcheson-Tipton: Weather
bat away raindrops.
Mom is driving. I ask where are we going?
(I think,
(Are we running away?)
She & Dad are
not getting along,
might get a divorce,
if they do, who would I want to live with—
*
For years after “going to bed”
I’ve been lying in the hallway
where Mom & I wait
during tornado warnings/
watches before climbing into
the linen closet |
Dad power-walks out
the front door,
his eyes scanning the sky
for funnels
sleepless,
waiting for voices
to grow tense. Inevitably:
“Mary, why don’t you see a psychiatrist?”
“John, how can talking to one help?”
*
A dozen times over as many years
she locks herself in a bathroom
clutching a bottle of pills
she threatens to take
as Dad
mows the lawn
[The final six lines appeared under the title “Harmless threat” in One Sentence Poems, November 2023.]
Tuesday 20 February 2024
Maurice Devitt: The Uncertainty of Winter
Monday 19 February 2024
Fred Pollack: The Street
Saturday 17 February 2024
Cindy Ye: The Package
Friday 16 February 2024
Glen Wilson: Play
Thursday 15 February 2024
Jeff Burt: Premonition
Wednesday 14 February 2024
Tom Kennedy: Resilience
Tuesday 13 February 2024
Jennifer Browne: Gastropod, a Love Letter
Monday 12 February 2024
Attracta Fahy: Enduring Utopia
Saturday 10 February 2024
Gaynor Kane: Making Life
Friday 9 February 2024
Kenneth Pobo: Unexcepted Company
sink water grey as the sky—
one dish feels like the next.
Time, a plugged-up drain. I look
out the window and see—
a bluebird! A blue lake
with feathers. I drop
the damp towel on the counter
and head for the porch
for a closer view. The bird
perches on the flagpole
that never has a flag
unless the sky is a flag
which it is on some sunny days.
Off the bluebird goes,
toward the catalpa tree,
which takes him in,
its leafy door always open.
Thursday 8 February 2024
TAK Erzinger: Hide and Seek
Wednesday 7 February 2024
Cat Dixon: All Love Ends in Water
Tuesday 6 February 2024
J.I. Kleinberg: staring down