Ennis,
2018
Bryant University
Ennis, Ruth Holzer
Bryant Literary Review
The dusty road to Ennis
rose up to meet me
like a blessing,
What's Going On,
2018
Bryant University
What's Going On, Ruth Holzer
Bryant Literary Review
I'm making my way through the stormy night,
a long road back, after I've left Father
Perseids,
2018
Bryant University
Perseids, Deborah Fleming
Bryant Literary Review
Mid-August and the hemisphere
Now turns its head away from light;
Peasant Woman In Gascony,
2018
Bryant University
Peasant Woman In Gascony, Deborah Fleming
Bryant Literary Review
1972
Under the shadow of the Pyrenees
In a field at the bottom of a hillside,
Heat Wave: November In Vermont,
2018
Bryant University
Heat Wave: November In Vermont, Mitch Lescarbeau
Bryant Literary Review
The world's askew:
there should be packed pads
What Is,
2018
Bryant University
What Is, Stephen Malin
Bryant Literary Review
It is what it is
unless of course
it isn't in which case
With A Phone Call To Heaven,
2018
Bryant University
With A Phone Call To Heaven, Bill Hoadley
Bryant Literary Review
I wish I had a phone
that could talk straight to heaven.
Death Comes To The Office For Daniel Downer,
2018
Bryant University
Death Comes To The Office For Daniel Downer, Jennifer Companik
Bryant Literary Review
He might've dispatched one of his Angels to do it, but Death knew Daniel would resist, and his best Angel was on vacation, harvesting souls in Costa Rica for the next month, so Death resolved to take Daniel himself.
Island Time,
2018
Bryant University
Island Time, Theresa Fairless
Bryant Literary Review
Carry a sunset in your pocket,
let the beam break a seam.
Big Red,
2018
Bryant University
Tail Of The Comet,
2018
Bryant University
Tail Of The Comet, Peter Johnson
Bryant Literary Review
At 11 p.m. Lucille Gorski found herself standing in a cemetery next to a monument proclaiming, "Herein Lies Phineas McGee, Who Left When He Had the Chance."
Late To Find Me,
2018
Bryant University
Late To Find Me, Marge Piercy
Bryant Literary Review
In my adolescence, high school
and through college, I was amorphous.
Elegy,
2018
Bryant University
Elegy, Brendan Nixon
Bryant Literary Review
Death stood there in a leather jacket,
sunglasses on and his hands in his pockets.
Birds Of The Black Canyon,
2018
Bryant University
Birds Of The Black Canyon, Vicki Lindner
Bryant Literary Review
As they crossed the big mountains only she talked, hands off the wheel to gesture vivaciously.
Respect Your Elders,
2018
Bryant University
Respect Your Elders, Charles Harper Webb
Bryant Literary Review
"Ready for a fastball," the grizzled grampa
leather-lungs. "Alls he's got's a fastball.
Bald Eagle, Blackbirds,
2018
Bryant University
Bald Eagle, Blackbirds, Matthew Spireng
Bryant Literary Review
A dead blackbird on the driveway, eagle
swooping down to avoid the plague of blackbirds
If This Man,
2018
Bryant University
If This Man, Matthew Spireng
Bryant Literary Review
If this man with hairy ears, ears
sprouting--not like an old man,
Rising To The Call,
2018
Bryant University
Rising To The Call, Christa Albrecht-Vegas
Bryant Literary Review
Julie heard them calling: the high, shrill pinging of a thousand points of--not light, but tinnitus.
As If It Mattered (Gambling Sounds),
2018
Bryant University
As If It Mattered (Gambling Sounds), Fredda S. Pearlson
Bryant Literary Review
if today moves
through its hours
with no lost rings
Chez Moi,
2018
Bryant University
