On Leave by Shari Jo LeKane-Yentumi
Only whiskey burns the sorrow as she grieves.
Purple velvet once surrounded golden dreams.
Both a season and a reason left on leave.
Now a memory left blank before what...
Patriotism Reconsidered by Lucinda Marshall
Ed. Note: Another in our series of poems by writers who participated in Arlington Writers Resist.
My anthem is the serenade of birds,
sung without regard for map lines
delineating...
Two Poems by John Johnson
My Ancestors
My ancestors picked cotton
Worked hard stacked brick by brick
The old say the young
Just scroll the mouse
Facebook Instagram and click
They call them the instant
Microwave generation
Smoke some marijuana
Now...
One Step Down by John Huey
Toward the New Year, that late December,
we parked the car near the old Sealtest Plant
just off Pennsylvania a block down from
Washington Circle where, since 1860, the
General has...
[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.
