Category: Spring 2010 Poems

Elegy for a Crow
by James K. Zimmerman you’ve got a sick crow in your yard the neighbor said but I know this: crows don’t get sick and

Tonight
by James K. Zimmerman I lie between two pillows the whole bed is mine tonight you are not here I dream of

Opening in the Sky
by Preston Hood Before the dead crawl out, I stitch it up with the white line of my thinking & watch the sunrise. I enter the mist though a

Victory, Wisconsin near the scene of the Bad Axe massacre
by Bill Edmondson Is not a town But commemoration Of blankety –blank A few two – story houses Some trailers a road Angling up

Laysan Island
by Bill Edmondson Abandoned by a careless sailor Cast out on this verge of a dash Little larger than a sand bar They’re driven to shelter by

What Loneliness Can Do
by Bill Edmondson It can find you in a men’s room Uphill from the phallic shrine on Molokai Enter you enter a life or what it’s come to A

Nigh
by Megan Grumbling Chance glistened in the blue spruce bower so near my doze: fresh champagne, suddenly, and one glass flute in wait. Fizzing

Ultrasound
by Megan Grumbling Have I heard of the allegory of the cave? he wonders, blue to me in pooled monitor lume, a dim room of insides, guess –

While I Stride
by Megan Grumbling O me, while I stride ahead, material, visible, imperious as ever! . . . O to disengage myself from these

Keeping the Pearls
by Renée Olander Those two creamy strands, their vague yellow tint increasing the value of the oyster’s irritation, cost an outrageous thousand