Category: Spring 2012 Poetry

Bill of Lading
by R.S. Mengert If you can empty your own boat crossing the river of the world no one will oppose you. Chuang Tzu I started

49 th Parallel Blues after Nate Mackey
by Paul Nelson The function of waves is to bring the salvage from shipwrecks. — Ramón Gomez de la Serna

Power of the Pocket Journal
by Paul Nelson Those tiny pocket diaries make the year smaller. — Ramón Gomez de la Serna & a year will

Dragonfly Resurrection
by Paul Nelson Horse flies are smudges on the air. — Ramón Gomez de la Serna Dragonflies are silent fireworks. Into the

17 Jasmine
by Neeli Cherkovski in the hills which are prelude to disaster famine, monsoon central planning, but I plant jasmine on your shoulder, and tend

Mantegna
by Neeli Cherkovski consider the blue and the red, take your pain to the hills, do not allow envy or anger into the house, step over the dying

Being, Love for J. C.
by Neeli Cherkovski being, love, water, the harbor where we turn, suddenly it envelopes us and there is no turning back, shadows illuminate gated

So Much Love
by Neeli Cherkovski so much love that I want to hide from love I sit in the garden behind our house on Bernal Hill thinking rose, tree fern

No Love No Hate for Bill Morgan
by Neeli Cherkovski 1 throw the book away let it decompose in the stream throw your pen into a cloud grazing jagged winter peaks as governments

Occupy the Poem
by Neeli Cherkovski occupy the poem on its quiet center and the louder margins take each letter and every word to the limit cross into emptiness