O, Meal Worm!
/…eats me like a gourd of flesh,
this slimy beast I dread; two weeks or more
until my heart's (that once was young and fresh)
a hole that brims with the plaque…
By Ngoc Nguyen
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RIP My Past
/We all have moments…
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…my past. I buried you
under a deep layer of dust.
I’m not lighting a…
By Petrouchka Alexieva
Read MoreOlder Adults
/…faces wear the past
Experience in each fold, wrinkle
Minds a treasure trove of knowledge
Irreverent eyes never fail…
By Margaret Karim
Read MoreSelective Outrage
/…for Gaza, but Sudan thirsts
in a famine.
The bloodshed in Yemen
cries to the heavens…
By Andy Cooper
Read MoreA Scorned Lover's...
/—a poem written…
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…when love outlasts the grave;
I will mourn you, when tears drown all I have;
I will curse you, now that…
By Ngoc Nguyen
Read MoreWlid About Harry
/…family in Madison, Iowa was two uncles. Larry, who owned a tavern near the waterfront called the Do Duck In. A watering hole frequented by bowlers during the week, hunters and fishermen on weekends and CB&Q railroad workers (whose locomotive shop was located…
By Don Gardiner
Read MoreSilver Threads
/…Umbilical,
Biblical, Empirical
Tinier than the tiniest speck in WhoVille,
Greater than the…
By Fran Pearce
Read MoreThe Wolf, The Lamb...
/There’s more to life…
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…watched closely as Lamb wandered further from the flock and closer to him. When the time was…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreUnder New Management
/…this morning commute to work with a smile on his face. Today wasn’t just any day at the store. He would be running the electronics store, while the manager, David Duke, was away…
By Chris Platt
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