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"Making a film," a poem by Rethabile Masilo

Making a film The moment mother comes in with the rest of the children we huddle at the centre of the room and wait for another shooting,...

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"Combustion," a poem by Kobus Moolman

Combustion I burn easily, he said. Even in a flood. It’s always the eyes that go first. Then the hair on the back of my hands. And before...

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"In Search of Welcome" by Charles E. Rice

Poets, psychologists, novelists and such have written of the difficulty of "going back home." I have several times driven up old...

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"Layers," a poem by Sarah Hasty Williams

Layers Morning lies heavy on the mountains. A dark veil begins to lift, and I seek to lift my own layers of darkness, let light filter...

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"50 Words at a Time," a poem by Gleah Powers

50 Words at a Time Whenever you smoke I know trouble is coming. The creases in your baggy pant legs are full of ash. Your hair spikes and...

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"The Bee Keeper's Wife," a poem by Claire Loader

The Bee Keeper’s Wife The clock strikes five and he goes to be with her, to watch how she moves, feel how she fusses mere inches from his...

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Canopic Jar 35: An Anthology

Canopic Jar 35, an anthology in print, is now available. Copies can be purchased directly from Canopic (here) or through Amazon (here)....

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Grief, a poem by Gene Kimmet

Grief It was not the memory Of all those years he toiled In the fiery mills, feet numbed By the winter walks to work, Or that wall of...

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"Climber Frozen on a Look Rock Monolith," a poem by David Phillips

Climber Frozen on a Look Rock Monolith Halfway up the rock she stops. A buzzard glides past. She curses her winglessness, right boot...

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"Dinner in the garden," a poem by Rethabile Masilo

Dinner in the garden We preferred to have dinner in the garden, On a wicker table and chairs in the orchard Under the trees, to smile...

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"My heart is empty now," a poem by Rethabile Masilo

My heart is empty now Please just let me turn down this volume in my head, so I can sit back, place my hands behind my head like a...

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"Shadows," a poem by Gene Kimmet

SHADOWS We walk together on this late December afternoon as we have walked For more than half a century. If we stand each year in...

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"Waiting" by Charles E. Rice

Waiting is no game. It belongs to life as intimately as sleeping. To survive our times of waiting poses one of life's greatest...

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"She Moved Me," a song by Hal Rice

Hal: vocals, guitars, bass Hugo: drums She Moved Me You choose me She tastes me like fall She chose me Selects me first overall I need...

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"Strelitzia," a poem by Charles Ghigna

Strelitzia Like birds in paradise we flew orange and blue beneath the guillotine of night. from STONES: The Collected Short Poems of...

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"The Hawk," a poem by Phil Rice

The Hawk A long red light with no traffic keeps the car idling and anxious. Across the highway, a cornfield shows the collapse of autumn;...

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"I Meant to Close the Window," a poem by Virginia Smith Rice

I Meant to Close the Window Where are those terror ful nights we suffered as children? Look in boxes under the eaves, unless attics have...

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"The Old Dreamer," a poem by Gene Kimmet

Illustration by Sarah Hasty Williams The Old Dreamer No longer dreams of glass-winged dragonflies That hawked mosquitos from the summer...

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"A Brooklyn Night in July," a poem by Charles Ghigna

A Brooklyn Night in July In the street below two gangs pierce soft places where flesh had been while here on the tar-papered tenement...

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"Appalachian Memories," a poem by Gene Kimmet

Appalachian Memories Hairpin turns in old cars With bad brakes, the reek Of whiskey. Tacky towns With tilted streets, young girls...

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