Tag: poems

  • Comorbidity: Expressions of Love

    When does love begin? I have a memory that I think is from before I was born, where everything is dense and fluid pressing up against me like an ocean. From this familiarity and safety, a kind of love may have already begun. And who could deny that babies love their mother, that most intimate…

  • New Poems from Karen R. Sanderson

    Karen Sanderson’s exuberant first collection of poetry, No Boundaries, celebrates her love of family and small town life. From memoir styled free verse to elegant haiku and snappy lymerics, the poet shines a light on the bonds dearest to us all. Strong single mothers and brave soldier sons come close to the reader’s heart with…

  • Winter Stalking Trees in NYC

    Winter Stalking white snow marks off black tree trunks walking stalking trees too move sharp stiff trees stare back at me taller damp and green blue moss hidden they watch my gray eyes with their hazel ones in silent decay

  • Decapitated Head of Household

    Decapitated Head of Household Laid off work force reduction doesn’t sound as true as this decapitated single head of household looking at her head in her hand wondering how it got there and how to stem the blood flow running out when nothing comes back. She is asking, who was I anyway in all the…

  • Winter Solstice, Not an End but a Beginning

    Winter solstice brings a short cold day. Tree’s buds wait hidden under red-brown coverings their leaves tightly wrapped around one another compressed and silently thinking – the end is near. December roses tremble together on leafless stems their hope flutters while sun’s feeble rays fade. But now, in the long dark night, roots remember that the…