“Though they became by vows one flesh / he felt himself a little less”
Couplets
ANA MICHALOWSKY
“When small, she’d wake, hearthside, to cook and clean with courage. / But then the prince arrived: for her a princess carriage.”
AMIT MAJMUDAR
“How does he square his fiddling with rhymes / with such unbearably precarious times”
MICHAEL BROWN
“Like Job, he kneels, hands placed before him on the ground”
MARYANN CORBETT
“Perfect: the singers, strings, and keyboards. Perfect // Bruised sky above the tents of the squatters’ district”
LISA BARNETT
“Propagate and fornicate, / procreate and copulate: / Latin for our base desires.”
MORI CREECH
“I struck the match. My child watched dead leaves burn”
ELIZABETH KLISE VON ZERNECK
“In this dark cabinet of poem: / no lanterns rise, few men reach home.”
BRUCE BENNETT
“Not hearing, I suspect that you / again have turned to someone new”
BRUCE GUERNSEY
“And once again / they too are back”
JOSEPH S. SALEMI
“Lotos-Eaters, Cyclopes, / Lovely Circe on her knees”
DAVID W. LANDRUM
“Here, it is said, Aegeas flung his old, / tired body to the endless breakers’ roll”
CHARLES RAFFERTY
“The moon has always fit as easily / into a puddle or the shoreless sea.”
