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Landscapes & Pastorals

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  • Poem

    poetry-magazineFemale Rain

    By Doug Gonzalez
    only I stood in the rain with wet skin. I could taste the dew though it had not yet found my lips. …
  • Poem
    By Hershman John
    Last Easter, I gave my mother-in-law a large, brown, simple ceramic
                Navajo water pot, shiny with pine…
  • Poem
    By Chris Hoshnic
    Dá’ák’eh     ahooł’níi niłch’i  doo   naadą́ą́.
    Naadą́   niłch’i
    Doo     Sodizin.
    Niłchi     adiin             goo
    Sodizin bee ’adoolnii…
  • Poem
    By Meredith Stricker
    in the DMZ ravines north of the Kaesong wastes edging
    south of the perfect ruler’s pink and prisoned paradisethere is a climate paying no attention to us where cranes
    repopulate serpentine deltas
  • Poem
    By Carolyn Forché
    These are your stones, assembled in matchbox and tin,
    collected from roadside, culvert, and viaduct,
    battlefield…
  • Poem
    By Timothy Donnelly
    And though we had fed long and well at the table
      the talk always turned to whether to go on
    regardless…
  • Poem
    By Andrew Frisardi
                                          PRIMEAt dawn, the shapes of cypresses in fog
    Were fingers pointing up from graves, as if what's born…
  • Poem
    By Don Domanski
    *
    clouds creak in the sky
    herons creak in the sky. 
    *
    the dark approaches itself
    from all sides once again…
  • Poem
    By Peter O’Leary
    In a wind
    the lake's scissoring surface

    and the Sun's vernal glare
    the gulls cut to curls
    in their turns…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazinea sudden hammering

    By Kristi Stout
    there is a woman in love with my husband. she buried a lamb this morning i didn’t. ahead of myself. …
  • Poem
    By James Joyce
    He travels after a winter sun,
    Urging the cattle along a cold red road,
    Calling to them, a voice they …
  • Poem
    By William Olsen
    My father bought us this trip, he'd taken it, he wanted to give us an experience,
    our eyes to see for…
  • Poem
    By Tilsa Otta
    Translated By Farid Matuk
    I saw a herd of toads in the gully of my reflection
    Staring at each other arguing over insects 
    It wasn…
  • Poem
    By Tilsa Otta
    Vi una manada de sapos mirándose entre ellos
    Discutiendo insectos en el cauce de mi reflejo
    No fue rom…
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