Category: Fall 2009 Poems
Urban Hymn
by Dan Murphy — Es mejor vestir Santos que desvestir borrachos
Eve of the Battle, Take II.
by Dan Murphy He’s hungry, I think and like a combine will eat anything. Wheat, grasshoppers. Dirt clods. Or like an ocean, swollen, its
MOVING VIOLATION
by Paul Muldoon WE WERE BUMPER TO BUMPER DOWN BY THE OUTLET MALL YOU PUSHED THROUGH IN A JUMPER TWO SIZES TOO SMALL I CAN’T ISSUE A FINE LIKE A
BRAND NEW SKINS
by Paul Muldoon I WAS PINNED ON THE HARD SHOULDER MY HEART WEIGHED DOWN BY A BOULDER THAT EASTER SUNDAY AFTERNOON MADDIE PULLED UP LIKE A GODDESS
Hard Wood
by Jody Gladding Ash say ash a fire laid with three logs because a fire must
Paper Birch
by Jody Gladding to read this I have to gather the pages it’s called a signature
Nesting Ravens
by Jody Gladding Yes nesting but you didn’t come here for a sign in the slate there’s a deeper question you
Devious in His Carpenter’s Pants
by Oliver Rice Suppose the doctor is running late. Suppose, meanwhile, extrospective, I cross the street, stroll into the park, wishing to be in
Chapped Lips
by Cory McClellan I can’t talk to you anymore, annealing tunes of hypomania has made me thirsty. Home remedies for cracked vermilion: praying in
Nervous Tic
by Cory McClellan It begins like a stutter in a nursery rhyme. Eye volumes fluctuate with capillaries colliding queries of lost keys against o r