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Poetry Only

Spring 2012. Vol. 34 No.4

There are thirty-nine poets in this issue, and that many and more new poems. Pick a few—plant ’em all, sprinkle with attention and then let your imagination grow. We guarantee it is worth the effort.

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  • Another Story

    by Leah Umansky
    Tell me when. When will it begin? Another Story. Another story. I have to. Back to the scene. Sway into....

  • epigram

    by Robert Swereda
    the word ‘Sin’ in Spanish means: without so, the practice of over indulgence is a way of reaching divinity

  • Rotten English

    by Tamar Rubin
    There are no words for this English, squeezed and shriveled in my molasses throat. The white crust stuck corners of...

  • In Dreams Bare

    by Leah Umansky
    or barely dreams, I had this second                   or this sec     to situate the situation; unsatisfy the...

  • He Who Laughs

    by Salvatore Difalco
    Laughter from the right Follows laughter From the left.   In the deep of the night This is no laughing...

  • The Last Death

    by John Wall Barger
    It had all happened before. The coffee cup with the old ship, steaming on the windowsill. Their hand-holding at dusk,...

  • Moth

    by Michael Lithgow
    Every few days another moth appears.   I hear them rattling between the window and rice paper taped across the...

  • Queen Charlotte is a Horse 1

    by Deidre Dore
    Thing is we’re growing old together, that mare and I. Our bodies are mutually lumped and scarred, we sag where...

  • this is why I write

    by Adele Graf
                          so at times when my                              ...