Category: Winter 2010 Poems
This Scar—After a line by Fernando Lisboa
by Leslie Ullman Lord, forgive me if I don’t look for you beneath vaulted ceilings built by canonical money and generations of peasants sweating
Gone Fishing—for Jack Myers
by Andrea Blancas Beltran You never told me You were leaving When I asked. You just propped up Your fishing pole
A Song for Jack—for Jack Myers
by Andrea Blancas Beltran I knew a bird could sing but I never knew a bird had a song until you. The ease of your laugh, the way you
The Drift
by Sandee Lyles We drift along and fail to notice What floats by much of the time Up and down, up and down We bob and grab for big stuff Likely
Eight Ball—for Jack Myers
by W.E. Butts There’s a Buddha on my desk, and he’s laughing. We of the West believe if you rub the Buddha’s belly, good fortune is certain. But
Sunrise on the Ohio River
by Jim McGarrah November 23, 2009 — for Jack Myers, teacher and friend In front of me silt and driftwood clip along driven by the current
After the storm,—for Jack Myers
by Daniel Nathan Terry graveyard flowers litter Shipyard Boulevard — petals of plastic and silk, stems of stiff wire. As we pass over the wind’s
Directions
by Norbert Hirschhorn My ancestors came from Africa, once, footprints preserved in volcanic dust, families walking side –by – side,
The Guineas of Gardiner Creek
by Brad Davis There’s this old Manor, decrepit, ticky, patrolled by dappled tick – eaters clawking endlessly their grey, clown–
The Ethical Problem of Existence
by Richard Jackson What I thought was an ethical problem of existence was only just a broken heart.