Poet’s Corner: The New Normal
Where we used to stop and share
we now shout six feet apart
or mime to one another
muted under heavy cotton
This is our new normal
Working from home,
teaching ourselves to bake bread,
planting our gardens, driving less
we find...
Poet’s Corner: Coronaikus
Coronaikus
By Michael Oliveira
upon reflection
that mirror guy is starting
to get on my nerves
heh heh heh heh heh
staccato delivery
helicopter laugh
the past behind me
yet the nagging feeling it’s
going to lap me
loved the Lone Ranger
when young: now I...
Poet’s Corner: Fridge Contents Writing Assignment
Fridge Contents Writing Assignment
By Nancy Slonim Aronie
I have reams and reams of paper
In case I write a book
But now with time and this assignment
My fridge
I'll take a look
Oy, all I see is heavy cream
Organic,...
Poet’s Corner: Out of an Abundance of Caution
Out of an Abundance of Caution
By Fan S. Ogilvie
I regret to inform you that life as it never was
is closed for repairs for cleaning for more agreeable
and compatible existence with all creatures of this...
Poet’s Corner
Two Poems by Gerald Storrow
The appetites we brought
To dinner at our house
Were small. Food was good,
But what we wished to eat,
Beyond the veggies and the meat,
Wasn't on the bill of fare at all:
Meaning for...
Poet’s Corner
I Am the Hug
By Don McLagan
I am the hug you didn’t get —
the bosom-soft embrace,
a rugged chest-bump
that didn’t press your heart.
There are no arms to sweep
you up like Dad’s when he
came home. There is...
I’m not jealous now
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I’m not jealous now
I will cling in his memory for a while
As a terrible being, a hungry pig
All my emotions sunk at the bottom of a dank well
Of taciturn suspicion
He will say to himself ‘I do not...
Poet’s Corner
To: my second hand man
By Annabelle Hackney
I know that I am sun sweet, but it’s January
& sometimes (diagonal from often) I consider what it’s like
to not know the difference between a body and a...
Poet’s Corner: Wake up call
Fan Ogilvie has published two books of poems, “You” and “Easinesses Found,” several chapbooks, including “The Other Side of the Hill” and “In this Place,” and a memoir, “Knot a Life.” She is planning...
Blue Bronco
Down old Oyster Pond Road
where the bayliner waits
we drive Blue Bronco
past Athearn's farm and past the broken fence
off graded trail and onto mushy march
our tires spinning in green, mossy mud
we arrive at The Breach
where...
Poet’s Corner
breath
By Clark Myers
think of your ribs as bricks
stepped toward the sky
think of your breath as smoke
and your love toward your loved
as late night embers
think of your heart as bellows
and kindling
our place here
is to burn...
Poet’s Corner
Christmas in Sarasota
By Don McLagan
It’s not Currier & Ives here. The set sun
silhouettes palms and fishermen
with their evening nets. The reflection
of Christmas wrinkles warm on the bay.
No doubt local kids find nothing amiss
and nestle...
Poet’s Corner
The fountains are frozen
Dec. 1, 2018
By Amarylis Douglas,
The fountains are frozen. The Buddha has tears.
December first, National AIDS Day:
so many years back,
back in the throes of the epidemic,
every artist, every painter, every designer, every...