“Though they became by vows one flesh / he felt himself a little less”
Tetrameter
ERNEST HILBERT
“The wind’s so hard the timber groans. / Bright newborn blossoms blow like snow.”
LISA BARNETT
“Propagate and fornicate, / procreate and copulate: / Latin for our base desires.”
PETER SWANSON
“Think thin, America, in silhouettes / Of evening dress and city lines.”
LIZ AHL
“Who showed you which trees to cut down or to keep? / The father who sang you down into your sleep.”
KATE SLAVENS
“A hollow whisper in the night / Precedes the whistling, cutting breeze”
WILLIAM F. BELL
“I don’t know by what happy omen / A creature from the past came by”
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”
JOSEPH S. SALEMI
“Lotos-Eaters, Cyclopes, / Lovely Circe on her knees”
R.S. GWYNN
“Here is a life to clear away.”
DAVID MASON
“I let myself be hanged, and learn / a new word whispered out of fear”
