Featured Poetry

Lisa Leaving Another leaving so many goodbyes, waving she vanishes down a jetway, down a driveway, on foot, in a car, going away we part reluctantly, long hugs, a look back having already planned another meeting my direction or hers we seemed to have reversed places she the mother, I the dependent are you sure … Read more

Sonora of My Dreams Sonora, a place in México. Sonora, the word, is a man with a sonorous voice. He is the desert sand, as bereft as the dry riverbed of the Colorado River. He lays side by side with Arizona, a woman, the place that I am. I lay in flowering cactus sands – … Read more

It’s Only a Crush You say you love me But your downcast eyes say otherwise They stare at the steam rising from your coffee My words mere sounds and syllables Floating in the flimsy air They don’t get to your ears Pieces that make up the mosaic of my life Which you easily blow away … Read more

Steam Sealed A full year and still we waited for hot spots to lose their heat and for the swell to lose its curve. We ducked from the microscopic hunter. From no-where into every corner it swept. The non-celebration, anti-fireworks, tiny-spiked-ghost-posse; showed the big men who was boss as it whipped without canon-fire, threatened and … Read more

Fade In In the living room, boys huddled near the food table. No one cared about the tabbouleh. We kept eyeing the girls in bell bottoms, sitting on the green couch. We dared each other to cut across the threadbare carpet, the kind Aladdin used when he flew over Bagdad, and ask if any of … Read more

weekend parent we roll through afternoon past stone people waiting for the bus we spoke along wheels dull as cloud cover the canal shines like a second chance wind and sun play the poplars the drawbridge hums the tune i sing i am seventeen she is forty seven i duckling behind her rainbow leg warmers … Read more