The Meaning of Life by Matthew Ratz
Doors locked, we hide the keys
Jeans frayed across the knees
On our backs beneath the stars
Basking in an autumn breeze
She spies Polaris, points out Mars
They’re lightning bugs in...
At the Bar by Karen Valentine
Minute shards of glass
settle upon the bar counter
like finely milled powder
The barkeep smiles at no one in particular
as if born an automaton
No warmth offered as he brushes...
[POEM] U-Turn by Naomi Thiers
A new poem by Naomi Thiers: "I think of the woman driving Cypress Street Viaduct
in the ’89 quake who heard God hiss: go back.
James Hampton, The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly...
Tossing away sandwiches,
chewing gum, cigarettes,
he made his heaven from wrappers,
commerce’s carapace. Who would discard
the meat of the thing: shake out
the book and bow to
the empty jacket, feed...
