Poetry

The Bells

by Harrison Fisher
The Bells

He has powers over animals

like darkness itself

poorly understood.

“An obscenity, indeed”…

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Nine Steppingstones Across the Solar System

by Cliff Saunders
Nine Steppingstones Across the Solar System

Venus shines with the idea

that a judge has spoken,

even when she is feeling

the fatigue of spring…

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Tatted Ladders

by Andrew Weatherly
Tatted Ladders

There are places the worlds are held together

tatted in fine lace of subtle connections.

The silver birch born astride the crumbling

trunk of a decaying ancestor…

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The Lighthouse Keeper

by Cordy Walker
The Lighthouse Keeper

In this tall, sturdy house

Lay an old, wrinkled sleeper;

A lonely old man,

Whom we call the lighthouse keeper…

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One Day You’re Dead and There You Are

by Gale Acuff
One Day You’re Dead and There You Are

I want to go to Heaven when I die

but something tells me I won’t like it

as much as I do life on Earth and for

that matter Eternity in Hell…

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God Song

by John Sara
God Song

At the end of my journey,

I meet the dying form of a man,

an old musician past his prime,

with a face as gray…

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My Little Town

by Vasili Khodeev
My Little Town

My memoirs are dying

In foggy weather.

And that caravan

Has gone to the stars forever…

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A Foreign Correspondent’s Report

by Thomas Piekarski
A Foreign Correspondent’s Report

As alien, a voyager from distant space,

home planet hidden to mankind, I was

curious about the little dot that became

a whirling blue marble as I approached…

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On the Glass of My Life

by Sasha Krugosvetov
On the Glass of My Life

A beautiful woman’s face

is painted on the glass of my life.

I am seeing everything

through that face…

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When the Emperor Insanus Hosted Banquets

by Harrison Fisher
When the Emperor Insanus Hosted Banquets

When the Emperor Insanus—

from whose name we derive

“insane”—hosted banquets to

celebrate victories, he would haul…

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