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Poems containing the words soggy, adagio, marble, and overwhelmed.
and out of the last farmhouse, the windows spy
Terese Coe
I'm aging in dog years. Trauma multiplies time's effects in prison.
Jamie Silvonek
Where are the staff?
They come and go
like dust devils.
Bob Bradshaw
Going With Dad to Check the Cattle
Shiprock looms, warm light
on smooth stone, same hue as my husband's face
barely touched by sun
Tina Harrach Denetclaw
green minarets glisten like the shimmering necks of pigeons
perched on abandoned, wet buildings
Lakshmi Arya Thathachar
If you feel overwhelmed and you close your eyes
and you count to ten nobody will ever know
that you counted to ten.
Eric Hadley
How wishes are wheat-back pennies, cats snoozing
in small pools of sun, the quietude between songs.
Lana Hechtman Ayers
Firemen come as soon as they can get there;
they too have lives.
Russell Rowland
I was held up in April and I killed him.
I'm not afraid but I have to beware.
Sue Blaustein
Mao searched his pocket
for a match, to clear the bathroom air
Matt Gulley
I picked it up
just the other day to browse
through her poetry again
Will Reger
The house-sitter dreams, the first night,
of her husband, who let himself dissolve
in a smoke-filled river of wine and weed.
Penelope Moffet
Numbers Only Matter In Gymnastics
I joke when asked my age, though I am pretty
over it
T.R. Poulson
