Featured Poetry

Too Much Smoke on our street. Sound of elephants outside the window. A brontosaurus steps on the neighbor’s car. Red flames consume trees. Inside our house my husband and I crave air. The Kindle speaks – Are you nuts? Get out of here now! We run, abandon the ice cream birthday cake with its strawberry … Read more

The Sap Beads From the Trunk and the hummingbirds sip from corries cradled astride crests of Santa Anas as the crickets churn their doubts and prospects for oaks to arc their backs auger well within the moss. And so many petals shiver at the ice churning within a cloud that turns throbbing soil slush and … Read more

Gerda Govine Ituarte, Ed.D. is the author of four poetry collections, Oh, Where is My Candle Hat? (English and Spanish), 2012; Alterations | Thread Light Through Eye of Storm, 2015; Future Awakes in Mouth of NOW, 2016; and Poetry in Unexpected Places, 2018. She established the Pasadena Rose Poets in 2016. She served as Editor … Read more

Coco is a Pasadena poet, public speaker, and performance artist. Her work is born of trauma and overcoming medical impossibilities. Writing is her secret to enduring. Coco is the author of Unicorn Psychosis, a collection of poetry, and has been published in Lummox 8 & 9,Lummox Special Edition Charles Bukowski Centennial Celebration, the Altadena Poetry … Read more

language arts atypical: as if normalcy trickled through this blood line; see also inheritance. anonymous: movement necessity; shallow breathing. anomaly: implies no other; implies expectation; see also hybrid; see also body. abstract: rescind from cosmology; dirt settle. androgynous: pale head; foggy face; delicate but only partly. address: a place or structure; numbered existence; see also … Read more

Alice and Bob Alice: the Avocado tree shades the bungalow from intense LA sun Bob: the Bungalow breaks strong Santa Ana winds that blow down They’re an example of loving symbiosis Like love birds preening Or elderly couples feeding Alice and Bob have been together for a long time I separate them when they kiss … Read more

Museum of Broken Things saved them all in nut jars you can see overlooking the living room little red cameras both of them that stopped with their mouthsopen at the castle on the way home from Kyushu to avoid Fukushima the puppet from Prague with a cracked femur from the uphill cobbled streets the sake … Read more

We don’t get to engage in violent language and exclusion[1] the California poppies say be soft yet unbreakable be willing to let yourself dance in the wind even as you stay rooted to the earth be steadfast but not static or stoic – let your fire shine and commune with others who practice fearless compassion … Read more

Overdue A screaming world says my body will always be a drain I pierce a river and the day cracks snow falls on the windshield of the Chevrolet my mother’s hair I start the warning from her warm belly I break her water her watch dangles from her tiny wrist my father starts the car … Read more