The Cricket’s Silence – a poem by Lily Thomas

The Cricket’s Silence Please, do not quit on my account. Do not let my presence be so daunting that it stifles your song. No, dear friend, resume your tune. My eardrums long to be stirred by your music, like a zephyr on the leas in mid-May. Be silent no more, little one. The evening sky […]

Transubstantiation – a poem by Sarah A. Etlinger

Transubstantiation Whenever a Jewish woman is pregnant, it’s believed, she could carry the Messiah. Maybe that’s why she can’t help but feed you. How like Mary: preparing a hidden feast for your belly like the nourishment growing in hers, perfect conditions for growing a life. Maybe that’s why I take such pleasure in feeding you: […]

Poem for Nigel F. – by Gabriella Garofalo

Poem for Nigel F. To Nigel By the by, God, have you ever seen my life? It is your celebration, of course – and mine: Nighttime, nighthawks, a soul marooned On a desert island only sabres can slice: Is it the word? The moon, maybe? Be then eternity and the heavenly vaults my witnesses, And […]

Interview with the Clooty Well – a poem by Helen Ross

Interview with the Clooty Well, Munlochy 2 August 2018 Time was when they’d bring their best circling sun-wise in houndstooths silks dipped in my spring tied to a nearby Ash with knotted prayer. Left to rot Pain forgot Off the tether Pain forever Things were different then of course. I mean we’re talking way back […]

Eve – a poem by Rebecca Guess Cantor

Eve In evening we are most awake. Darkness dulls the outside and we are left alone. We were never awake in the garden that was never black, never left to ourselves. We slept and dreamt, made love, always watched by the somnolent moon. I brought the dark to this place. Now I sleep, dream, make […]

Tintinnabulations – a poem by Sanjeev Sethi

Tintinnabulations Awakened insides ensure steadiness in cognition and commission. In His fluorescence thoroughfares glide to goodness. If this seems ballyhoo-like so be it. He doesn’t need this noise. This is my deed, my dodge. His light- heartedness eggs me on to poetize. Sanjeev Sethi is the author of three books of poetry. His poems are […]

Meditation with Weights – a poem by Diane Elayne Dees

Meditation with Weights The turf is my temple, the sled my altar— each white line a mala to help me remember my breath. I remember my breath and my legs, my feet and my hips, my hands and my arms. I remember each person who helped heal my body. The white lines compel me to […]

The Communion of Saints – a poem by Anne Higgins

The Communion of Saints Every Sunday I declare that I believe in it. Those women torn apart in the Coliseum, Brigid, whose father was a Druid, Lioba, almost buried in the same tomb as her cousin Boniface Therese, the youngest, with her shower of roses. But also Margaret Slavin Higgins, hugging me in the kitchen, […]

The Gentle World – a poem by Joel Moskowitz

The Gentle World There is a gentle world. Mushrooms send their healing mycelia through the mossy earth, trees listen with their sensitive leaves to the weeping in the wind, and communication runs through stone. There is a gentle world. And it must be so because the mountains are so large, with millions of human feet […]

Paradox – a poem by LA Felleman

Paradox for strait the gate and constricted the way leading to Life and few are those finding it. -Matthew 7:14 I pray from my diaphragm. Adoration travels up Through my body Shines out of My face to become An expansive embrace Beyond me. The narrow way encourages Such overreaching. LA Felleman is currently an […]