God, Forgive Me
Dana James
Sometimes I wonder, no, always I do, each time I see that face /
Nondescript and plain, but we know her by name, staring at the corner. /
She, who carried the world's greatest prize, praised for her fragile state. /
Category:Poetry
En La Republica Dominicana
Hannah Ferber
I saw him there /
Bare toes curled into black earth /
Hunching over the infected gutter /
Poems from the Chinese
David Hinton
Carrying a ch'in cased in green silk, a monk /
descended from Eyebrow Mountain in the west. /
Word and Violin–Spoken Word Poems
Pireeni Sundaralingam with accompaniment by Colm O’Riain
These are the letters I leave behind me, /
dull lines written for the censor's eye. /
There are no stories here, only headlines, /
statements of fact, shielding the truth. /
Snow
Parisa Roohipour
A torrent of white /
noise affiliates, /
Kicked By The Wind
Jan Rosenfeld
The years fall from you all at once /
I know that now. we spent a season /
watching the cat shed, after all /
and she licks her paws the way I wish / ...
The Universe’s Lullaby from Liberal Arts Symposium 2008
Mark Simos
Go to sleep, my little tabby cat /
I love to watch you on my kitchen mat /
Sleep, your head between your outstretched paws /
Dreaming of those mice / ...
The Sycamore Tree from Liberal Arts Symposium 2008
Keppie Coutts
Go to sleep, my little tabby cat /
I love to watch you on my kitchen mat /
Sleep, your head between your outstretched paws /
Spying
Ben Backus
Little rule of /
Thumb /
Flailing and failing /
Magnetic Depolarization /