Categories
Poems

To Behold The Witch is an Act of Dreaming Itself

Featured Image  by Stephanie Leet. Title  from Amanda Ackerman’s The Book of Feral Flora. I’m swimming in a horse’s eye as it is being carried to school In pieces, in a wheelbarrow Where your grandfather woke up kissing an apple hanging over a stranger’s head Where the children are writing poems you may be reading now […]

Categories
Poems

Night Return and Other Poems

Poems by Anthony Ritchey night return television mother (goodnight my son) wife bottle brother (first & last lovers) * * * allow me to be with you in this box in my hand allow me to show you my work my life, my dreams, pathetic. * * * marriage, fear of solitude alcoholism, the inevitability […]

Categories
Poems

Letters to Marshall From Eger

A Poem by Arlo Voorhees It’s a world of sacrifice, ain’t it buddy? Of course you knew that when you hung up your traveling sneakers and shelved your wild notebooks in favor of mortgage payments, carpools, and ultrasounds. I’ve been a liar all my life, so these things come late like poems, or boyish epiphanies, […]

Categories
Poems

Fiber

I am everywhere I am sitting on your head I am raining on your home I don’t even try I shower but I smell I keep mum but I shout I chipper ‘good morning’at your placemate he mumbles inaudibly in return I play my music and I play it loud the birds seem to sing […]

Categories
Poems

Prerequithoughts

Celebrating National Poetry Month, Thru Magazine will publish poems every Friday in April. Commencing the commemoration of the  is Jen Scholten. Prerequithoughts: an ongoing, ever-expanding collection of poems. I. Pipe dreams — man, of me of us roving desert hills, chilling mountaintops with stares that stop them dead; winds dreading us. Can’t we figure in […]