Poetry
“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”
Robert Frost
Poetry has the ability to immerse you in a story instantaneously. You naturally want to flow with the rhythm and experience the words instead of reading them. That’s what caught our attention with our featured poets; their prose was magnetic and left us wanting more. We hope you feel the same way.
Slow Rhythm Before The Frost
“I'm looking at surrounding trees, none of which have lost
leaves yet or become as rainbowized as a multicolored
mandarin duck.”
Mother Says
In her room, failure does not bring despair
but is a kind cloud, drifting over caliche-hard ground.
Fried Potatoes and the Evening Paper
“Often, on these summer nights in the mid 1940s,
I sat beside him, wanting to lean into him so badly,
but I didn't dare. He was not an affectionate man.“
Thank You Letter to the Old Me
“It is what I do, but my mindset is not on
me anymore. It is not about being rich and famous. It is not about the
world thinking highly of me. It is not even about acceptance.”
Chasing The Next Desire
“Usually, there was some kind of toy
in the window that I wanted, but I never had
enough money. I didn't receive an allowance.”
Falling In Love
“Put your hand to my heart and feel
how I return to myself
in this place of peace.”
More of a Mother
“Years yell out what I yearn to have and to hold
as I beckon hungry hearts, babies who need milk
to get full by the love language I settle into.”
Better Weather
“Wings, wings migrate chameleon seasons free at last
to be vastly themselves in week-spans or months
according to the permission of that powerful condition: as is.”
Bounty Fills the Body
“my mahogany members are removed, ready to
take part in the final facet for hunger dissipation,
a hush, a hum, a hue lifts into the inward me”
Intimations at Age Sixty
“Yes, how dusky visions begin with that sense of the familiar unfamiliar
in settings and beings all having something of the mundane going overboard
like exam-panic cliché. “
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