Musings #45
TOUCH IS THE LAST TO GO I start to tell her the doctor thinks she is much closer now. After all she has said about wanting to die, I...
Musings #44
THE TULIP-FLAME, by Chloe Honum, is the well-deserved winner of the 2013 Cleveland State University Poetry Center First Book Prize. The...
Musings #43
GHOST GEAR, poems by Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum, a 2014 finalist for the Miller Williams, Arkansas Poetry Prize, is a strong read. With...
Musings #42
COSMOLOGY OF THE BODY – after viewing the Body Works Exhibition What a surprise to see the liver large – in size, the organ second only...
Musings #41
MAKING SAFE TO TELL The only way I know – I ask him if his faith is beside him. For I am about to tell him news precious to me, her name...
Musings #40
URBAN WILD Two red and two black kits emerge from their nearby den. At my approach mother becomes a decoy – long, thick tail extended as...
Musings #39
A BROTHER’S STROKES Wanting to escape rule and wall, he searches in the northern wood for the one wild, true thing he can never name....
Musings #38
POWER OUTAGE What shall we do, my dear old love, with nothing to distract us from each other? Suddenly shy, no, frightened – not by the...
Musings #37
Rewriting History The past is unpredictable. ~ Lawrence Levine I. We women tell each other about our mothers – a way to become known. So...
Musings #36
In BASTARD HEART, Raphael Dagold expresses a history of loss that has made a home in his heart. Dagold does this in lyrical poems, like...
