Category Archives: Poetry

The Beauty of Abandonment

Posted on May 23, 2017 by beepoisonivy

by Jane Ellen Glasser (Goodreads Author) Off a dirt road in West Virginia, set far back in a weed-infested field, an abandoned wood-slatted home stands, kneels really, in the shadow of the Blue Ridge Mountains. I imagine it is free … Continue reading →

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Unwritten Things

Posted on November 26, 2016 by beepoisonivy

by M. Flynn Ragland But she had loved unwritten things instead, I pondered as night’s windows filled with gray and all the things the rain had left unsaid. To live not of the heart but of the head has been … Continue reading →

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Remembering Stella on The Day of the Dead

Posted on July 17, 2016 by beepoisonivy

by Sara C. (Koeeoaddi) There was no funeral, but we hung bronze Soleri bells in the palo verde tree that shades your spot. I thought you might prefer that crazy sculpture of a bird you bought made of hatchets and … Continue reading →

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The Currency of Bears

Posted on April 25, 2016 by beepoisonivy

by Anthony Watkins (Goodreads Author) There are no bears in the money. There are eagles and lions and tigers, and the queen. The Tigris and the Euphrates whose stripes change ever so slowly.  The bear sits in the market place. In an … Continue reading →

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Sonoma

Posted on March 4, 2016 by beepoisonivy

by Emily Axelrod On the path to the studio tarweed sticks to my shoes and in the warmth of late afternoon releases its musky scent. It is the smell of dry brown hills,  of horses sweet with sweat, of dried manure … Continue reading →

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This Is Home

Posted on February 5, 2016 by beepoisonivy

by Marlene Kelly We will always be here, you said. This town and you and the rusty moon Under the browned trees and the night sky. The permanence, a brick house, Built to withstand earthquakes and silent explosions. Inside I … Continue reading →

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Absence

Posted on January 31, 2016 by beepoisonivy

by Rose Mary Boehm  Unquiet, furless animals, her hands are comforting each other on light-blue cotton and a piece of creamy silk. Still there is beauty in her face — all folded in upon itself. Her eyes have found a focus … Continue reading →

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Et Tu

Posted on January 28, 2016 by beepoisonivy

by Megan Joy The lavender, I like. Its scent is a halo and you don’t seem pressed thin anymore. Months ago in sterile rooms we pondered what could sever the linings. Rows of velvety red vials and diagrams of your … Continue reading →

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The Quilters of Gee’s Bend

Posted on January 27, 2016 by beepoisonivy

by Alarie Tennille Seems like that old river tied itself in a knot just to keep black folks there at Gee’s Bend while time and fortune swept on by. And Master Pettway gave those folks his name, but stripped everything … Continue reading →

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People Who Live With Lions

Posted on January 24, 2016 by beepoisonivy

by Jim Pascual Agustin Mandela would never live here. This suburb was only on paper 17 years ago, the country still intoxicated with ideas of freedom and equality. It was once a vineyard. Farm workers who lived in shacks without … Continue reading →

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