Dreams Led Me Here
I’ve left the world I knew behind for there are treasures I must find. The future is a course that …
After “Desiderata” (Collection)
Contestants were asked to respond to the timeless message of Max Ehrmann’s 1927 poetic prose essay. Their winning entries follow …
Pietra Dura
Here is the closed blue eyelid of time you touch to make sure, to see. Through a flat window of …
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[An Enigmatic Loneliness]
An enigmatic loneliness Has nestled on my porch— A mottle-feathered camouflage Against his stony berth. At first, I thought ‘twas …
Imagine If
Imagine, said the porcupine if buffalos could fly, If ocelots would only dine on elderberry pie, If silverbacks played paddy …
Sugar Maple
My lover is a sugar maple tree, her back erect and regal, erudite, her breast replete with summer’s greenery, her …
Exiting the Trenches
We’ve been under house arrest for days, our gray-cloaked jailers, wispy-haired, roll their heavy carts overhead, jangling their keys, making …
From Humble Dark Beginnings
I grew beneath the shadows where light was hard to find lay there amongst the darkness abandoned, left behind. I …