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Featured Poetry

“Why Have My Sea-Legs Dropped Anchor in the Galley Again?” by Pauli Dutton

I circumnavigate to bedroom.
Dredge bobbing laundry baskets for an answer.
Drop the secret code overboard.

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Two Poems by Barry Rynk

I pick flowers for Peg under the Hollywood sign, the day after the deluge… The dust and
dirt of LA washed from the
stolid icon.

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“Your Precious Love” by Don Kingfisher Campbell

You are the butterfly who fluttered onto my skin made me feel the music
of lips on lips leading to mouth into mouth dancing dripped like Motown 45’s

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“This Time the Cat’s Not Playing Jazz” by Lynne Bronstein

Thought you’d get off easily this time!
You think you can walk in anywhere
With your axe in hand,
And make like a musician?

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Two Poems by Tom Laichas

The property’s close to worthless—
encumbered title, no water rights,
a contested will—who knows. There’s
no money left for lawyers.

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“Blow Bugle Blow” by R A Ruadh

It calls the dead
over the fields
echoing in their eternal sleep even as it serenaded them

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“Connect” by Lisa Lewis

Eyes connect
Connect the dots
Dot your i’s and cross your t’s
Tease the world, seize the world
Sometimes even please the world

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“Green” by Ken Pobo

You’re deep green, spring
with green feathers landing
on the roof, the green grass that

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“If Only” by Beverly M. Collins

If only music inside of me could
pounce from your shiny throat
and swirl the air.

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“Untitled” by Bonnilee Kaufman

there’s solace in repetition
it’s why habits
form/steady beat
deep in belly
desires thudding/before bedtime

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