Category: Spring 2013 Poetry

if this is all there is it better be enough
by Robert Roley there’s the war it seems it’s endless dreams crouching before the fire withered gray in

stranded fast upon these shores as twilight deepens
by Robert Roley stymied before icons of the virtual the news all apocalypse colorado burning words

the glove box poet
by Robert Roley gone downtown heard some old geezer gassin’ they can’t take nothin’ from you once you’re skint

Architecture
by Robbie Sugg I live in a concrete monolith cells divided by sheetrock plaster plateglass plastic

Observing Glen Park
by Robbie Sugg Clouds diffuse over the canyon, plank houses rise on stilts to meet the rice paper sky. The age old

Passing Through the Heart from: San José Song
by Robbie Sugg Passing through the heart of town, the swollen Guadalupe River Simply breathing this wet air, I am stoned beyond description

thank you for this
by Celina Villagarcia pressed against the backs of eyes, tears offer the slightest fire on room–warm arms warmth

Eternal Water
by Celina Villagarcia I want to birth one hundred children a river full of bearing — arms waving in welcome eyes closed

For Paul
by Celina Villagarcia In a hundred years your fingers too frail to braid with mine legs too burdened by time’s hand to walk

Random Afternoon / Late November
by Nick Squadere There is a strange / quiet — l o n e l i n e s s : not a single person home at my cousin’s house