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Featured Poetry

Warrior
by Lane Falcon

January 30, 2023 Contributed By: Lane Falcon, Rebecca Pyle

the red house by rebecca pyle

the not letting me touch him when mummified again 
by medicine and its machines. Even when I wrap 

him in his favorite blanket, lift his saddled head and lay 
it on his home pillow, he doesn’t look at me. He barely moves. 

Filed Under: Featured Poetry, Poetry Posted On: January 30, 2023

Inside the Kaleidoscope
by Jane O. Wayne

January 26, 2023 Contributed By: Jane O. Wayne

seaweed

All it takes is one turn
of the kaleidoscope and the butterfly-world shatters.
Why can’t you learn?

Filed Under: Featured Poetry, Poetry Posted On: January 26, 2023

I Hope Your Birthday Is So Beautiful, It Hurts to Look at It
by Josette Akresh-Gonzales

January 19, 2023 Contributed By: Josette Akresh-Gonzales

green bean pods on vine

barbeque and a good dog and beer and acres of thigh-high grass 
touched by the first draft of evening. A sunlit breeze lunges 
across the hay field. We stand around, breathing. 

Filed Under: Featured Poetry, Poetry Posted On: January 19, 2023

Verge
by William Cordeiro

January 9, 2023 Contributed By: Will Cordeiro

You walk beside the crick as light is rushing 
off. Afterglow molts lavender and saffron.
Each house you pass is built of falling dust.

Filed Under: Featured Poetry, Poetry Posted On: January 9, 2023

It Just Goes to Show
by Sylee Gore

December 26, 2022 Contributed By: Sylee Gore

Now I know what you’re thinking. In this one you’re the princess; the dragon is faceless. Everywhere, the edges of the waves are blown into froth. I worry so much about making it interesting. Off the ferry, the first thing we buy is a cone of sugared almonds. Crests of waves begin to topple.

Filed Under: Featured Poetry, Poetry Posted On: December 26, 2022

Evelyn Nesbit Poses as Bluebeard’s Wives
by Rose DeMaris

December 12, 2022 Contributed By: Claudea, Rose DeMaris

"A Million Breaths" by Claudea

My abundant hair, my only wealth, fits so easily
in his fist. I pull the soft stem of his handrolled cigarette
from my lips, which he told me are a pair of petals

Filed Under: Featured Poetry, Poetry Posted On: December 12, 2022

Threeple, Tripple
by Kelly R. Samuels

December 5, 2022 Contributed By: Kelly R. Samuels

"Forêt de Compiègne" by Berthe Morisot (1885) from the Art Institute of Chicago

            Cumbria: gentle sound made by a quick-flowing stream

The traffic always was just outside the bank of windows
                                      and down and could be heard
more than seen for the trees that spring and early summer.

Filed Under: Featured Poetry, Poetry Posted On: December 5, 2022

Absent
by Susanna Lang

December 1, 2022 Contributed By: Howie Good, Susanna Lang

God of War by Howie Good

I have been missing from this year’s spring.

Witness to the winter aconite and snowdrops, the first daffodils,
but not the tulips or hyacinths.

Filed Under: Featured Poetry, Poetry Posted On: December 1, 2022

MAYDAY “Editors’ Choice Award” Interview with Winning Micro Chapbook Author Ja’net Danielo

November 21, 2022 Contributed By: Emilee Kinney, Ja'net Danielo, Kari Teicher, Katherine Fallon, Trinh Mai

An interview with the winning Micro Chapbook author Ja’net Danielo on the inspiration and process behind This Body I Have Tried to Write: “With these poems, I very much wanted to convey that illness, disability, loss, and grief are not physical and emotional circumstances that happen to a body but are ever-evolving processes held within the body.”

Filed Under: Featured Poetry, Interviews, Poetry Posted On: November 21, 2022

After 13 Years of Alzheimer’s, My Grandfather Spoke.
by Caleigh Shaw

October 21, 2022 Contributed By: Caleigh Shaw

Photo by Magda Ehlers/Pexels

The next morning, she imagined thousands of blooms the blue Melvin’s work shirts used to be.

Filed Under: Featured Poetry, Poetry Posted On: October 21, 2022

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