"When I was a lad / My father's cheeks rasped mine..." begins the poem, "An Old Man's Right" -- the first of two by Murray Alfredson.
"...my yard is a mine / field full of missteps springing the traps of / inopportune moments..." poet Jesse H. McKnight writes in poem of taking out one's trash and vulnerability felt in the keen gaze of others.
"Salvation comes in less than a second..." writes poet Jesse H. McKnight, in this poem of powerful imagery and everyday miracles.
From blue skies to airplanes aloft, the weight of the earth to the moon's daytime appearance, poet Neal Whitman takes on five good questions asked by children in answers of "found poetry."
A tree from a box, or one decorated with dew - images from this beautiful short poem by Danny Barbare
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