Category Archives: Poetry

A is for Atom­­–An Instructional Film (1952)

by Annette C. Boehm

A giant of limitless power, at man’s command.
We found him in the head of a pin. In a pincushion.
In a sewing basket. In ships and shoes and ceiling wax
and cabbages and cranes. Continue reading

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Burke’s Handbook on Beauty

by Annette C. Boehm

First, be small. A greenfly,
the tip of a finger, a hypodermic needle.
Be smooth. Sealskin, a lisp, a slip,
the freshly ­waxed hood of a cop car. Continue reading

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Doctor Williams, Driving Home

by Tim Suermondt

This delivery went so well
he says, “I should write a poem about it
and fill it with pizzazz.” Continue reading

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Sturgeons

by Steven Ray Smith

There were two.
One started poor.
The other became. Continue reading

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Attention Deficit

by Jason Walker

The parents
nap
on a water-
bed. We plot
to pop
it with forks. Continue reading

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