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what becomes of all the poems I write on my heart as I’m falling asleep but have no memory of once morning rises are they whispered to the angels and pixie dust in the nether time when the world sleeps but magic rises do...

when you proposed on the porch of our little hut in Belize I was completely speechless and just kept smiling and crying at one point noticing no response had been given you said you should probably say yes, now and laughing from...

After Rita Dove’s Thomas and Beulah Outside the church, She strolls past the maple trees, The mandolin’s echo lingers still, as if He’s there, but he’s not. Gazing at the path they used to walk Where magnolia breeze stirs...

Wednesday, eleven o’ clock, lying on my bed, in the dark, I called you. Five seconds, ten seconds, fifteen seconds, should I hang up? But–then, you answered, suddenly & finally, tears rush down, competing with one another....

A limp, grimacing life-like, Halloween mask removed for picture taking purposes the boy’s face unmarked, expressionless, framed against the stained plaster dusted wall the gouger & the gouged   Alan Catlin has two full...

after R.E. Meatyard The youngest sits in corner shadows at the El formed by top-of-stairs enclosure and wall with legs crossed, hands folded in his lap, obediently obeying admonitions to remain still, to be as quiet as the model...

I would not part a waterfall of moths, or agree to play a role and learn no lines. If I saw a wolf scrabble across the ceiling, I would die of fear. I could not be sucked chest first into the clouds, or encounter my older self,...

Summer is a time of laidback reflections on life lived in heated pools of liquid joys and jagged loves. Summer heat cools our thoughts and pricks our passions and drives insane ideas pounded like nails into a block of ice. I...