Highway Five Love Poem for Anna –Ruth L. Schwartz From Dear Good Naked Morning This is a love poem for all the tomatoes spread out in the fields along Highway Five, their gleaming green and ruddy faces like a thousand moons prostrate in praise of sun. And for every curd of cloud, clotted cream of cloud spooned briskly by an […]
Poetry: Valentine for Zephyr, Age 12
Valentine for Zephyr, Age 12 –Francette Cerulli From The Spirits Need to Eat The night before valentines are due, I take you to the movie about Vincent whose paintings you love. Too late I realize it’s a mistake. You knew about his ear and you know the definition of prostitute, but neither one of us was ready to see him cut […]
Poetry: Love at First Sight
For my sambear Love at First Sight –Jennifer Maier From Dark Alphabet You always hear about it— a waitress serves a man two eggs over easy and she says to the cashier, That is the man I’m going to marry, and she does. Or a man spies a woman at a baseball game; she is blond and wearing a blue headband, and, […]