Tag Archives: New Poetry

NW Park Ave

by Lisa Bren 

In cities with paved roads
and sidewalks, the trees
can’t get up and stretch
their legs, they’re caged,

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Salem

by John Attanas 

In the dining room
of the Holiday Inn,
Salem, Massachusetts,
Dad has just ordered
a third vodka martini.
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Catfish Crucifix

by Beth Houston 

It’s not a shell, as often thought, but bone,
A piece of sail cat catfish skull, the part
That looks like God hung on the cross, weird clone
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A Ban, A Death #16

by Darren C. Demaree

I heard you call this
a history of aesthetics 
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The Other Thursday

by James Cariddi

The other Thursday I was sipping dark rum drifting in and
out between twelve and one watching through the smart TV
my third grainy educational video since my wife went to bed,
called “How Medieval People Got the Best Sleep in History,”
about all the cool things people did between their sessions of
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