Alas I knew gleaming
of soil, when sun
makes him cracked.
Once—eyes, cheekbones, face
all the more bright; worms
color what's left,
moon hits him yellow,
ghastly puzzlement grin,
where once belies
fleshy prominent he who I thought
formerly.
Taunja Thomson 's poetry has appeared in The Cincinnati Poets' Collective, The Cincinnati Poetry Review, and The Aurorean. Her poem "Seahorse and Moon" was nominated for the Pushcart Award in 2005. Several of her poems will be featured in the summer and spring editions of The Cahaba River Journal, as well as in winter issues of Squalory, Lime Hawk Journal, and Wild Age Press.
Geramee Hensley
November is an anagram
for fishhook
Taunja Thomson
Skull, My Former
Rachel J. Bennett
Level with Animals
Field Dressing
My Favorite Animal
For the Programmer
Sean M. Conrey
Alan
Lomax Translation No. 1:
Nimrod Workman, 'Mother
Jones Will' (1983)
Alan Lomax Translation No. 2:
"Belton Sutherland's
Field Holler" (1978)
Heather McNaugher
Nature & Environmental
Writing Workshop
Thea Goodrich
Keynes & Keats as the Keystone
Cowboy: Infinite Iterations
Vanessa Couto Johnson
augury
Raymond Farr
Encroachment on a Dry Source
Kristin LaFollette
The Burial
Anna Kreienberg
a tornado poem
Alejandro Escudé
A Proper Pressurized Blast
Cathryn Cofell
Throb