Kings of Ambition by Garen Zakarian
With open arms / we venture to the land / where reason ends / We succeed / with chance or the stubbornness / of…
A Friendly Warning by Garen Zakarian
To reach Nirvana / you must find the yellow pig…
Mother’s Absence: Year 14 by Garen Zakarian
In the grand scheme of things / your absence is dwarfed / by fourteen winters / cold and distant / deep inside the permafrost…
Untitled by Garen Zakarian
I live off leftovers / scattered along a dusty highway / stretching twenty thousand miles behind me
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Don’t You Die on Me by Garen Zakarian
If you die / I’ll tear you into a thousand pieces / just like that last appeal denied / dump you on the concrete…
Walter by Michael G. Springer
I didn’t know you’d made the paper, Walter, / yesterday, when I saw you walking beside the road / in your long weathered coat,…
Portrait of a Poet by Michael G. Springer
we saw him first in prison / where he came to visit a man / whose desert had dwindled down / to one moderate…
44 by Marquis E. Pannell
The hill is comin’ up way too fast, and I know it, / So I feather the brake pedal of my brand new beige…
Paradise Realized by HughStan J. Schlicker
Paradise is waking up at noon, / Making an omelet and missing a few shells, / Reading a book that makes you feel alive...…
In My Window by Dale Russell
I sit, reflected / in my window. Rain / falls from the gray, ticking / on the glass like liquid pebbles / streaking toward…