BRUCE BENNETT
“Not hearing, I suspect that you / again have turned to someone new”
ALFRED NICOL
“He does not say a word to me / that he might not take back again.”
SUSAN MCLEAN
“Gather rosebuds while you may; / drink your fill of Cabernet.”
WILLIAM BREEN
“Me sad. Me who love cookie cannot taste / with tongue of felt to cardboard pasted flat.”
BRUCE GUERNSEY
“And once again / they too are back”
PAUL LAKE
“You storm out late at night / And walk the streets alone / In adolescent pique — / A tried and true technique”
DEBORAH WARREN
“He could no more make them heed his speech / than he could take a roll call of the waves”
JORGE LUIS BORGES
Translation by Robert Mezey and Richard Barnes
“Snow fallen on Northumberland has known / And forgotten every footprint that you made”
JORGE LUIS BORGES
Translation by Robert Mezey and Richard Barnes
“If sleep is truce, as it is sometimes said”
TONY BARNESTONE
“A man swings through the open doors on crutches, / his long arms thick with muscle like the Christ”
X. J. KENNEDY
“With thoughtful steps she made sure that no friend / Would catch the drift of what she planned to do”
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ALISON PELEGRIN
“No plans for tonight but to snare a poem, / to set a breadcrumb trail of booze / and catch a little buzz myself.”
JOSEPH S. SALEMI
“Lotos-Eaters, Cyclopes, / Lovely Circe on her knees”
CATHERINE SAVAGE BROSMAN
“Full moon, full river now — a mountain tide / at flood stage and still rising”
MICHAEL BATTRAM
“More heifer than a deer, a craftsman’s failure”
DAVID W. LANDRUM
“Here, it is said, Aegeas flung his old, / tired body to the endless breakers’ roll”
ANNA EVANS
“I cast you as the main romantic lead / in what I always knew was just a play”
