Poems

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Boots and Bayonet
My platoon a loose group cross-legged
Karen Skolfield
Grave
Over the grave the bird will
Kuno Raeber
Sister Dementia Remembers & Phone Booth
Enough of bosom, ass, and pillow—
Nancy Mitchell
from The Violet Blood of the Amethyst
An exceptionally unhappy heart.
Louis Calaferte
Three Ghazals
When I woke in the night, I walked to the center of the dream.
Nicole Callihan and Zoë Ryder White
Without Apology
Things happen. We’ve been promised
Annette Barnes
Elevator Boy
All night I lifted them through seven stories
Jay Parini
Wolf Wine Bar
Two years ago, maybe even two and a half
Natalka Bilotserkivets
Listening to Stone
The man who carved you vied and gossiped
Alice Derry
Curriculum Vitae | Ode to Silo City
I’ll keep the ululating
Philip Metres
At the Cemetery
Cloud cover from horizon to horizon
Alan Shapiro
What You Can’t Fix
She was always fixing me, stuffing filler in my holes
Jeff Friedman

Boots and Bayonet