Rook

29 Rook I’m hiccupping as I write this poem. Yesterday I stayed up past 6 am. I’ve crushed yew berries in my hand and slid their pointed seeds between my ...

28 In an Orchard I Don't Remember [using this for submissions!]

Lying While Birding By Naomi Shihab Nye Yes Yes I see it so they won't keep telling you where it is

27 A Review of the Moon as Seen from the Window in the Silence of 3 AM in April 10/10 – No notes.

26 Review of an Evening Concert Location: Conveniently local! I walked out my back door and there it was. Atmosphere of the venue: Breezy & refreshing. It wasn’t crowded at ...

25 Big J's Diner 1 I’d memorized the marble pattern on the corner table’s laminated surface. Speckles of melted ice cream were ever-shifting stars. 2 The vinyl on some of ...

24 You I'm sitting in silence at the poetry workshop as they ask who you are. The "you" in my poems, I mean. I'm sitting in silence wondering the same. ...

23 Delight your hand's echo is river cold rise, red wrinkles pressed into your back sunburst the skin nightly fling open the curtain let the world stammer against your brightness ...

22 When the committee digs up my body (using this in submissions!)

21 I Hold You, You Hold Me You offered me ABC gum and I said okay. You spat the pale green glob, dimpled from your molars and slick with spit, ...

20 Blackout Abecedarian Always, the yarrow sways and the Beech trees flutter. Light a Candle since the power’s out: Darkness thrills in a storm. Even after all this time, I’ll ...

19 Blood Orange Imagine stepping through your 1 AM kitchen door into 10 AM deep in a grove in Sicily. The trees are hung with blood-streaked fruits as if a ...

18 A Chicken It has no horns on its head. It is not a cathedral, nor is it a tomb. When you touch it, it does not dissolve. It would ...

Thirteen Ways of Eating Fruit with Friends I You hand me a clementine. There is a little sticker that I peel off and place on your hand. II We eat ...

17 Going to Six Flags with the Tortoise I know immediately that this was a mistake. He will not be persuaded to buy a flash pass. He only wants to ...