Velvet Night by Garen Zakarian
When I get tired/the Earth will cease spinning/and thoughts will be suspended
/in the air/dormant as a bureaucrat’s mind…
Season by James Rogers
Once on an autumn night / There were stars, even a rising moon / The beech tree had shed its leaves …
To My Sister by Steve Porterfield
You left home / When you were seventeen / In your gray Honda Civic / With the Buckethead sticker in the window…
The Ranch by Billy Sedlmayr
We took April and drove it onto open road, / collapsed into each other, / one more betrayal, an admission I paid for and…
View (2) by Stephen Keating
A concrete and glass tower / commands the prison yard. / From inside it / men who have no souls / look down on…
View by Stephen Keating
One section / of the sidewalk / has a huge purple stain / and a popsicle stick; / the temperature is / one hundred…
In a Dream by Stephen Keating
In a dream in which I am home / Everyone I love is there …
Untitled by Stephen Keating
Darkness overtakes the yard / like a silent adversary / always strange and unexpected / coming from the horizon / pressing down on a…
Within Darkness by Stephen Keating
When I was a child/ I feared the darkness …
An Earth-born Wanderer
I leave here every chance I get / Going places that I’ll never be …