Filling In the Blank
/I searched all my poems for “tabula rasa”
but found a blank slate—not a horse at the gate.
In this large, empty casa, I shouted “Qué pasa?”
There wasn’t an answer. I chose not …
By Ken Gosse
Read MoreWriting Gallery
Chalk to Slate
/I view blank slate
Thus contemplate
My feelings, dreams and hopes
Wins versus loss…
By Mike Turner
Read MoreThe Sins of the Father
/Liam has always known he was adopted. His adoptive parents had always been honest about that. He did see Alan and Josie, who raised him, as his parents, but now, in his late twenties, he started to wonder about his biological parents. The idea niggled at…
By Chris Platt
Read MoreMonthly Meandering
/This couple enjoyed wandering …
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We were an adventurous pair: a girl and a boy.
Our monthly meandering through the forest generated joy.
One springtime hike was filled with enormous …
By Debby Hackbarth
Read MoreA Green Carnivore
/Unlike most plants
that draw substance from soil
the earth is merely your anchor
your appetite is for …
By Shih-Fang Wang
Read MoreDon’t Mess With The Snail
/Hey, stop right there, you human being,
Don’t you dare call me a worthless snail
Who wanders across the kitchen floor
Messily oozing a slimy …
By K. J. Watson
Read MoreDear Mother Earth
/We have been talking about saving…
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Oh, my dear Mother earth, we find ourselves in quite a bind. Once we had abundant resources, but now, those resources are harder…
By Linda Troxell
Read MoreSign Said: No Colored Allowed
/George Blackwood's empathy for the struggles of Black Americans began in his childhood in Gates, a small community in western Tennessee named for Revolutionary War General …
By Don Gardiner
Read MoreStrange Times
/It all started with village folktales. Of ghosts loitering in the silence of midnight, stalking a wandering stranger or a lone recalcitrant youth returning home…
By Benjamin Nambu
Read MoreRamblin' Round
/Nobody knows what’s …
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Don’t we all? The bear went over the mountain to see what he could see. The groundhog surveys my backyard for exactly the same reason. The birds on the deck are glad to have discovered the delicious seeds somebody foolishly …
By K. L. Shipley
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