Poetry




Cemetery by Richard Luftig
The only mourners left; These summer storms Those winter moons. Winds that sand Away the names On tombstones To flatness as if No one ever lived Here to farm the…
No. 4 · Breaking Curfew
Collapsed Barn
This plywood in its dotage has fallen in on itself and only the varicose veins of the nails run along the epidermis of rotting boards. Swallows…
No. 4 · Breaking Curfew
Four O' Clocks
She started them from seed, ordered from catalogues that choke off a mailbox in December while trying to delude you about the inevitability of spring. Now,…
No. 4 · Breaking Curfew
Closing Night
Very few farmers mourn this last act of winter. They look ahead to a new play still in rehearsal that they hope will have a long…