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Barbara Crooker: In the Middle

Each day, we must learn
again how to love, between morning’s quick coffee
and evening’s slow return.

June 5, 2023 · 15 Comments

Michael Simms: Prospero needs a little nap

Vox Populi will endure, albeit at a slower pace.

April 24, 2023 · 106 Comments

Carol Moldaw: Game Face

To see the ravages of aging on one’s face used to be inevitable.
Now it means one’s taken a stance.

April 10, 2023 · 4 Comments

Barbara Edelman: White-Throated Sparrow

Though she is dead
she is buying me a car
and this buying makes her happy

April 5, 2023 · 9 Comments

Sydney Lea: A Monk After Dark

One boot sags like him in his cubicle’s corner.
He drops the other to the floor with a grimace.

March 21, 2023 · 3 Comments

Barbara Crooker: Nearing Menopause, I Run Into Elvis At Shoprite,

The bass
line thumps and grinds, the honky tonk piano moves like an ivory
river, full of swampy delta blues.

February 6, 2023 · 11 Comments

Laura McCullough: Hero With Only One Face 

He tells me in his diminishing days, death not yet active,
but clearly begun, about his siblings, family shufflings,
foster homes, the orphanage. Who said they would
but then could not, who promised this & forgot that

January 30, 2023 · 5 Comments

Video: Wooden Wheel | A Filmmaker’s Tender Tribute to Her Seafaring Father

Grounded by a sailing injury, Arthur still finds solace in the Irish Sea.

January 17, 2023 · 3 Comments

Doug Anderson: Ghost

The old man finally just went away
to live in the mountains. Two goats,
a dog for company. The wind
made a harp of the pines.

January 12, 2023 · 11 Comments

Michael Gregory: Third Day of Christmas | Earth Air Wood Water Fire

Too many missing from this year’s mailing list.
Looking back I’m humbled to remember
how many stupid things I’ve done and survived

January 3, 2023 · 2 Comments

Anonymous: I Get By With a Little Help From Depends

Some of the artists of the ’60s are revising their hits with new lyrics to accommodate aging baby boomers.

December 31, 2022 · 4 Comments

Dennis Patrick Slattery: Aging in Body, Eldering in Spirit

Our culture is hungry for voices of elders to share their wisdom with us, to counter the fierce energy of adolescent flames that insists on “my” and “me” to the exclusion of “us” and “we.”

December 18, 2022 · 7 Comments

Neil Shepard: Local Freeze

Flat lines of black clouds 
rolled over the Everglades, pelting the land with cold rain, 
then, briefly, almost impossibly, hail, over the wetlands and dredged 
fields, reminding us how fragile the grapefruits and oranges.

November 15, 2022 · 5 Comments

Barbara Hamby: The Tawdry Masks of Women

and when I see myself
in bus windows or store glass, the shock never wears off,
for I recognize myself and see a stranger at the same time

October 10, 2022 · 6 Comments

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