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POETRY CORNER – 3/16/16 Louis Osofsky now the rain pouring on my words, just spilling along this me in March Louis Osofsky says “I write. I’m a...

POETRY CORNER – 3/9/16 Mrym Phrym among the first signs of spring green cart of two men selling hearts carved on wood Maryam Pourrahimi calls herself Mrym...

POETRY CORNER – 2/24/16 Tom Clausen crowd of trees at the creek edge in reflection Ο Ο Ο wind blown clouds cross the puddle Ο Ο Ο water’s edge so many...

POETRY CORNER – 2/17/16 Joyce S. Greene the pattern for my wedding dress laid out on white silk– married thirty years Mom and Dad are still in love...

POETRY CORNER – 2/10/16 Michele L. Harvey my mother said he’d never amount to anything the frog I kissed and kissed till he became a king Michele L....

POETRY CORNER – 2/03/16 John Stevenson winter mountains in the conversation as a listener John Stevenson was traveling by train between his home near...

POETRY CORNER – 1/20/16 Deborah P Kolodji beach primrose blooming out of season on your 93rd birthday a smile so bright you seemed young again Deborah P...

POETRY CORNER – 1/13/16 Peter Shefler Here Come near me now, and let me sleep, entwined in your dreams, for a while let the bright shadows do the seeing...

POETRY CORNER – 1/06/16 Teresa Mei Chuc Embers My heart glows Someday It will become The ash that is A part of the air we breathe Teresa Mei Chuc was born...

POETRY CORNER – 12/30/15 Tom Clausen icicles dripping… on the other side of the window houseplant in the sun just a scarf her scant warmth in the...

POETRY CORNER – 12/22/15 Hosted by Kathabela Wilson Marietta McGregor first step… one red leaf clings to the water bowl Marietta McGregor, is a...

POETRY CORNER – 12/16/15 Tomislav Maretić solar eclipse – the song of warblers ceases as the twilight appears around us Tomislav Maretić, who lives in...

Editor’s note: This Corner is dedicate to Kathabela’s wonderful mother* (Dec 15, 1920 – Dec 5, 2015). POETRY CORNER – 12/09/15 Pat Geyer...

POETRY CORNER – 12/02/15 Beth Zimmer Cunningham folded secrets, attic scents memories unearthed deliberately placed for me she whispers from the grave...

POETRY CORNER – 11/25/15 Ali Znaidi twirling strands of hot spicy spaghetti … winter midday on the oven the smell of cakes I wish I hadn’t a cold Ali...

POETRY CORNER – 11/19/15 Caroline Skanne folding and unfolding origami wings one day i will rise above my fears fluent in the language of dawn a...