Poetry V.V
“Word Riot,” by Gerard Sarnat
Alone but not lonely
[...]
2 Poems by Mark Cunningham
Ship-timber Beetle
One cow, then another, ignites in the March sun, then stands in the long shadows and crops hay. Death does not level all: if you covered the earth with pyramids whose tips all reached the same height, then somehow managed to put you hand on all of them at once, they would not feel [...]
“Current Issue,” by Gale Acuff
All the good comic books have been picked through
here at the Dunaway Rex-All Drug Store
at the Cobb County Shopping Center, so
I’m not sure what to do. We get out only
once a week, every Friday,
Father and Mother and I, for supper.
After dessert, Father gives me my due
–my allowance, twenty-five cents. I earned
it, I guess, by making [...]
2 Poems by Robert Connal
A sonnet on unsteady buildings
On homeward roads the granite houses march,
their roofs pulled low against the lash of rain,
their windows streaming sea-spray, rustic arch
and cobbled path fence-deep in mud again.
They’re drunk. The town is famed for drunken homes,
its pavements wet with whiskey and its gutters
deep in rum. Each tilted building roams
the wine-dark streets some happy [...]
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