Featured Poetry
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"I Feel Sappho-"
by Nancy Byrne Iannucci
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"Fragment: Long Island City Spring"
by JC Alifer
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"sages astride 12 harlequin bicycles"
by Julie Allyn Johnson
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"My first portrait of a 27-year-old"
by Elijah Woodruff
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"With a Shaved Head and Heart-Shaped Daggars for Eyes"
by Sara Atwater
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"Morning Gallery"
by Craig Kirchner
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Excerpt from Sonnets II
by Karina Bush
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"The Girl Who Paints Pictures"
John Jeffire
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"Worm Moon"
by Samantha Schell
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"Crows' Breakfast"
by L. Ward Abel
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"Unspilled Milk"
by Philip Venzke
The Argyle presents…
Yersinia pestis for Idiots: A Primer for the 14th Century Plague Doctor
A Virtual Poetry (Micro)Chap by Tom Holmes
Tom Holmes, author, teacher, winner of The Bitter Oleander Press Library of Poetry Book, and founding editor and curator of Redactions: Poetry & Poetics, cracks a funny bone (or two) with five of the funniest tongue-in-cheek poems about death and pestilence you will probably ever read in one of The Argyle’s latest (micro)chaps.
This mini-chap will vanish into the ether upon publication of The Argyle’s third issue in May 2024. Read NOW before it disappears.
Six Poems
by GTimothy Gordon
“After the long haul you wait
for the slow still-life to matter.”
Five Poems
by Philip Venzke
“the cod perfume of her womb
fading from my sheets
and the alarm clock cowering
like a radiant tombstone.”
Three Poems
by Junaid Ahmed Ahangar
“i will auction my life to meet you one day
and i will spend the rest of my life, waiting..”
Five Poems
by L. Ward Abel
“Frost follows
the shadows
of trees pointed
northwest
away from a dawn…”
Worm Moon
by Samantha Schnell
“I saw the moon through the curtain
crack and felt the night
around my neck.”
Four Poems
by John Jeffire
“Vulture breeze, numb in the wreckage, stripped to bone…”
Three Poems
Poetry by Craig Kirchner
“He sits, Mark Twain in jeans,
a cheerful Ezra Pound smoking a joint…”
Excerpt from Sonnets II
Excerpt from Sonnets II
by Karina Bush
“And white light slowly runs all over me
Newly jewelled in sunbeams and white seeds.”
Three Poems
by Sanjeev Sethi
“Shade or sunlight,
one can never sweep certain spots.”
Five Poems
by Megan Mizanty
“He walked in contempt, swagger of malice,
and we cowered in line to the water fountain..”
With Shaven Head and Heart Shaped Daggers for Eyes
by Sara Atwater
“Locks fall, feather light. Years shorn
from your shoulders, now contracted. ”
The Old Men of Elba
by Robert Halleck
“…as time makes room for nothing to happen.”
My first portrait of a 27-year-old
by Elijah Woodruff
“The whorls on my fingertips
Transfigured into pink wet ghouls.”
Mammogram
by Linda Laderman
“Keeping things buried have unintended consequences.”
Two Poems
by Julie Allyn Johnson
“…they balance Easter eggs
on upturned teacups
under a globular sun…”
Six Poems
by Oliver Nash
“Trails becoming rivers
Nature’s debt on loan
All joint custody”
Five Poems
by Joshua St. Claire
“Sunday morning
a yellow crocus
breaks ground”
Ressurection
by Keith Hoerner
“Aves find
Themselves
As thrown
Stones
Beaks raking
Earth like plows…”
Four Poems
by Elizabeth Morse
“The radio thumped through destroyed linoleum.”
Four Poems
by Tamiko Dooley
“My promise of treats to rot the teeth
Or a trip on the trains
No longer has the power to lift the storm.”
