Like Lazarus I rise from deepest sleep And walk into your arms, wakened by a song That, could they hear, would make the Sirens weep. So I give in, and giving in, grow strong. Your hand upon my cheek, our limbs entwined, Seem like a dream I pray won’t fade with dawn. All night we […]
Jeff Burkhart’s “Rhyme and Reason”: Sadness
Let this pass through your eyes and rest in your mind so that you can feel it in your heart. Sometimes I’m sad And I can’t be consoled I’m confused And I can’t see the light And the weight of the cross that I bear Drags me down And whatever I do isn’t right And […]
Poetry Corner: Lawrence DiCostanzo “I Married a Cro-Magnon Woman”
Even though you wear petite, I should have known. The way you hold your head, the focused movement, thrift in speech — All were clues. When you muscled the case of wine into the trunk while I was calling, “Wait! Wait!” When you dug up the whole garden with a rusty shovel. When you dragged […]
Poetry Corner: Charles McCauley “Grandma’s Vision”
She was blind In those long gone days of easy before I grew hard into my boots I would watch her stare as she creaked and hummed in the old country rocking chair at the warmth of the early morning sun Sometimes her index finger slowly moved across her lips like a metronome as we […]
Poetry Corner: James Garrett “Two Hearts”
Glancing from preparing dinner she says, “I love you.” He says, “I love you. You’re my everything.” “You’re mine,” she replies. Hot flames of passion. Warm embers of love. Time, time, time. Changing, yet so the same. Golly, she was a cute kid. She’s cute still. The photo on the wall, Is of a younger […]
Poetry Corner: Sandra Anfang “Patching Holes”
I kneel at the edge of my partner’s longing a tub of Fix-all in one hand a spatula in the other. I move along the stairwell feeling for fissures in the drywall as a doctor palpates flesh, a squirrel searches out holes to ply with acorns. It’s easy to fill a lover’s vacuoles to spread […]
Jeff Burkhart’s “Rhyme and Reason”: Under My Desk
4th grade me, beneath my desk My teacher made me do it Parents never told me why But deep inside I knew it Time passed by, no bombs were launched And everything seemed fine Shelters built beneath backyards Got filled with vintage wine I wonder what the damage is Remaining in my brain Waiting for […]
Jeff Burkhart’s “Rhyme and Reason”: Pun-zi Scheme
Visionary venturists Appear from time to time With innovations loved by all That change the paradigm E-lec-tric-it-y and such Air flight, assembly lines Telegraphs and televisions Come from these great minds I’ve had some good ideas And I think that I that I could help Create a business model That would get 5 stars on […]
Poetry Corner: James Garrett “Reunion”
They came from the past in singles and pairs. Each brought their lives, and curious stares. Some traveled far over land and sea, Each curious to see what had come to be. Some had stayed so close to home, Others, by choice or chance, did roam. Now all brought together one more time, Some playing […]
Jeff Burkhart’s “Rhyme and Reason”: Super Bowl Fever
I hear a buzz in Houston Fans: The Super bowl’s today! The Falcons and the Patriots Are squaring off to play Wait no more; it’s going down! I’ll tell you what it means The stock is up on Barbeque And Boston’s Brown Baked Beans Tom Brady and Bill Belichick Are sneaking through the halls So […]