Dental Records by Gary Cozine
- It wasn't the way you ate eggs yolk first
- And cut the whites into quarters, then eighths
- Or your silhouette in a crowded room
- Your random quotations of Kundera
- Or how your head tilted left when you kissed...
Three Winters in Kansas by Wilma Weant Dague
Three Winters in Kansas
is enough for anyone.
But the view from the office window
is compensation...Road by Rachel Swirsky
black boil hands
hot tar feet
bubbling flesh
to flat...Catechism by Miriam N. Kotzin
Just for a moment she may have paused,
Adjusting her hair in the mirror:
Negligent, that's the effect she wanted,
Entering the room where her lover waited...Harmonic Sympathy by Jilly Dybka
At thirteen, I was convinced I'd be a rock star just like Chrissie Hynde. A bass guitar was what I missed. Someday, I'd lay down the sounds that hold guitar and drums together. I would be musical glue. Night after night I'd analyze the bass guitar ads, memorize Fender, Gibson, Ibanez, and Vox...The Beatles. I Couldn't Hear Their Lyrics But by Bob Bradshaw
The Beatles. I couldn't hear their lyrics but
it didn't matter. All the girls
knew the words more intimately
than they knew their periods...One Afternoon by Arlene Ang
My husband slips under the quilt,
turns a warm shoulder, the sunny-side up
of flannel, then dreams, Dammit, Rosa,
I love your Spanish mutton...My Parents by Karin Neuhold
brilliant persons
choosing each other
reluctantly...