Poetry
Poetry Highlights…
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"Dream Cat"
by Jim Murdoch
“I really don’t think / cats know / how dreams / are supposed to work / but more fool dream me / for expecting more.”
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"Sparrow Song"
by Emily Anna King 锡萍芳
“…for the flower stripped of its petals, what does it remember of the summer breeze when the small hand echoes in absence each loss, like a molted feather…”
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"The Other Mirror"
by James B. Nicola
“To look or not to look, that is the question. / When you do look, to have to see yourself— / or have to look away: another question.”
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"Winter Escape"
by Nicole Farmer
“next time I’d like to come back / as a cloud; windswept, shimmering / pale peach, golden, and violet.”
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"Black Forest"
by Mykki Rios
“cake darkened with cocoa / to resemble the woods around the babes / who wander from the narrow path / with red hoods and breadcrumb trails / in the dark…”
Five Poems
by Craig Cotter
“[I spun] vinyl 45s, / blue / plastic / Sears stereo…”
Six Poems
by James B. Nicola
“To look or not to look, that is the question. / When you do look, to have to see yourself— / or have to look away: another question.”
Winter Escape
by Nicole Farmer
“next time I’d like to come back / as a cloud; windswept, shimmering / pale peach, golden, and violet.”
Five Poems
by William Teets
“The corner boys slip into view, / so cool, so cold / If wishes were crowns, / they’d all be kings…”
Five Poems
by Mather Schneider
“I am a hired hand on a small farm. / The owner is a blind man with a big beard / who calls himself Noah. / He runs a tight ship.”
food for fungus
by gabor g gyukics
“we have only ourselves to rely on / no relatives / no friends / help us / to forget / our past / on which we build our present “
Five Poems
by Emily Anna King 锡萍芳
“…for the flower stripped of its petals, what does it remember of the summer breeze when the small hand echoes in absence each loss, like a molted feather…”
Three Poems
by John Sara
“I’m 20 and Batman emerges through / my window. It’s raining and he’s grimacing. / He says there are other ways to help, / as if writing can bring down / The Joker and / The Penguin / and all the others…”
Two Poems
by Stephen Barile
“Hot afternoons in late September / Foreshadow grapes for raisins / In the auspicious vineyard row…”
Two Poems
by Kent Kosack
“Mold in the basement and I’m not / sure what to do. It’s not my house. / It might not even be my life anymore.”
The Hunter
by Alvin Kathembe
“Into the silvern wood to pursue his injured quarry / like Hansel following a trail of jam / ….The bloody spoor leads him to a starlit clearing— / there the stag lies, gasping, / pumping thick quicksilver / from the gunshot in his neck.”
Two Poems
by Hannah Brading
“Some trees split / on their own. / It’s the cold, they say— / too much / inside / trying to escape at once.”
Featured Poetry at The Argyle…
“Across Fifth Avenue”
by Robert L. Singer
“I took a survey of the ghosts / Who undermine long rooms at night / A sighting of simply scarce / Bastards floating freely as you think / Yes, you’re the late one so / Enter the performance…”