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Poetry

Poetry

Name Change

For nearly twenty years I’ve been a member / of the “Men’s Spiritual Nurture Group” Howard Nelson
Poetry

Tuning Up

A staccato jackhammer, / rattle of a loose windowpane, / a frisking wail of wind. Richard Schiffman
Poetry

Wednesday Evenings

A gaggle of barefoot pilgrims / hungry to hush minds’ chatter / tiptoe upstairs, settle Karen Luke Jackson
Poetry

Morning Prayer

While river whispers / at his window, carrying night slowly / downstream, he rises, like a pre-dawn lark Anne Maren-Hogan
Poetry

Hoeing an Apple Tree

To hoe, not only to protect fruit / but this toddler apple tree’s future Cynthia Gallaher

Glaciers (Removed)

“Glaciers” by John Kucera has been removed from the August 2023 online edition due to plagiarism. The actual author of…
Poetry

Wild Greens

Observation in pursuit of / something is one / way to describe / what foragers / do... Averie A. Hue
Poetry

A Litany for Ancestor Wisdom

In a world divorced / from knowledge that cannot be / parsed or proved Karen Luke Jackson
Poetry

Vermont Solstice

Light brighter than the sun / pierced the midsummer night. / Thunder on the mountain. James Hannon
Poetry

This in Remembrance

Something was always on the stove. We talked / until a lid began to dance, and again / when she… Donald Mace Williams
Poetry

From the checkout line in the supermarket

I notice the sun duck behind clouds and blue / sky turns gray. I feel the last of winter  Molly O’Dell
Poetry

Pilgrimage

drawn by liquid chemistry / redolence of home / I made my way to you Tricia Gates Brown
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