After 30 years together, Carol tells me late one evening in the manner of a quiet wife that I have yet to write a poem about her, something she will never understand in light of all those other poems she says I wrote about those other women before she drove North. And so I tell … Continue reading »
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Moon Child by Jason O’Rourke
During the winter it gets dark early in Belfast. You may grudgingly accept that this is the price you pay for those heady long summer nights, but even so, it’s December now, and June is a long way off. It’s difficult to conjure the memory of warmth and blue evening skies when it’s pitch black … Continue reading »
Two ways about it by Ivan Jenson
You are book and I am street smart you like to know the theory behind the chords struck by finger picking finger licking good moments of this hootenanny while I just strum and humdrum through the ho-hum of an afternoon while you toil with Beethoven brows. I am the untrained monkey the jingle jangle junkie … Continue reading »
Mishegas by Aaron Poller
A Yiddish term mother would drag out when I was making less then any sense, quite often in my case, to let me know I was loved in many languages. Today I lean into a world may seem what, aligned with love or death, a step away from sitting in my lap, letting me hold … Continue reading »
A Knot in the Wood by Calla Devlin
It was the first time my father had visited me since I moved to New York and we hadn’t been alone in a room since he helped me pack for grad school. He had paused before folding each article of clothing, then grimaced whenever he tucked something into my suitcase. His expression communicated what he … Continue reading »
Market Day by Philip Vermaas
My father is not a market person, not a wanderer amongst the trinkets unless he’s committed to the whim of others and, in good humour, is going along and taking that measure of alleviation which you do when doing things others enjoy. My father is not a market person, he’s a scheduler and surgical shopper … Continue reading »
