POEM ALONE
Friday, 13 June 2025
Jacqueline Jules: Guard at the Gate
Wednesday, 11 June 2025
Michael Penny: My Refrigerator
with ambitious recipes
and my fear of running out.
Fruit piles on butter
and wine lays down cool,
all ready as eggs to use.
I plan meal systems
and clear the shelves
for cleaning and order
in life and provision,
until the next supermarket
hunt and gather.
My packed fridge lives
for diminishment,
a life of full and using up
Michael Penny was born in Australia but his family moved him to Canada when he was a teenager. Since then he has published five books and in numerous literary journals.
Monday, 9 June 2025
Harrison Fisher: Carnivorous Squirrels
Friday, 6 June 2025
rob mclennan: from 'Fair bodies of unseen prose,'
Wednesday, 4 June 2025
Jacquie Bryson: Bloods
Monday, 2 June 2025
Howie Good: Factory
Wednesday, 28 May 2025
Jean L. Kreiling: Musicians of Spain
Monday, 26 May 2025
Cheryl Snell: Genealogy
Friday, 23 May 2025
Jackie Chou: Far From the Balcony Gate
Wednesday, 21 May 2025
Colleen Addison: space
in the space that exists now because you don’t write me I sit on a central American deck the yoga mat unused on the planks and a coffee cup next to me dregs dark at the bottom the room visible through the sliding doors with its twinbedspushedtogether the howling of monkeys and chitterchatter of birds I don’t know feels silent as a soundtrack without the beep of your text and yesterday the pitter of rain fell beepless onto the doors the hotel clerk called my name in the dark that wasn’t you either and now a squirrel runs from leaf to leaf like gymnastics but less elaborate I get up not to check the phone but to take a photo the squirrel leaps again and it is gone
Colleen Addison completed a PhD in health information; she then promptly got sick herself. Her recent work has been featured in Giant Tentacles, Halfway Down the Stairs, and River Teeth.