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José A. Alcántara: Eclipse

Some will be thrilled at your steady undoing,
others, bored, wishing the spectacle over,
still others will be distracted by the stars
blazing past you. But yours will be no quick plummet.

January 28, 2025 · 9 Comments

Susan Kelly-DeWitt: Psalm for Sunrise

Let the horses of dreaming ramble
home slowly from their sweet dark pastures.

December 29, 2024 · 12 Comments

Phillip Terman: My Blossoming Everything

It is red raspberries in a circular thicket of thorns.
Who are you, my beloved? My sweetness,
My swallowtail, my infinite youth?

July 14, 2024 · 3 Comments

Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer: Self-Portrait as Tuning Fork

and you quiver
as if struck by the great hand 
of what is true

June 9, 2024 · 31 Comments

Dane Cervine: The Jeweled Net of Indra

the coal that fumes the electricity that plunges
the needle drifts in air that circles a globe that warms
the icecaps that melt into sea that shifts the current
that loves the wind

June 2, 2024 · 4 Comments

Bhikshuni Anyatara: Out in a Field

Then one morning, there I was, an old woman.
Where had I gotten in all those years on the Path?
That night I slept out in a field, and it rained.

July 16, 2021 · 1 Comment

Rita Sims Quillen: First Memory

People never believe me
when I tell them I recall
waking in my crib, lying watchful

December 16, 2020 · 2 Comments

Peter Schireson: Awakening

The monk sits
upright, unmoving
in the garden

June 1, 2019 · 1 Comment

Michael Simms: What is Poetry For?

A few days ago, an old priest who was a colleague of my wife’s passed away, and Eva came home from work angry at the world. I was worried; Eva … Continue reading

February 1, 2015 · 15 Comments

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