Soul Fountain

Connections Sheen caps ground rails Soaking harsh sleepers To rattle mud-flounced trains. Drizzle dusts, Grinding against itself, Sparking the tracks’ sheen With casual exasperation; Blinding the gravel Kicking in panic Against the basalt of its being. The lifeline Brine polishes ...

To The One Who Desires To Be Me what life is left in me to be desired? me, the wayward wing of a brawny bluebird that lost its grip on the tiptop of a fruit tree fell flat on the ...

Holocaust Redux   They’ll be coming for us, the old lady told the young man  next to her, the two of them sitting on stones under the bridge  surrounded by trolls   sworn to protect them.   Victors come for those  who fight and oppose ...

THE LINT LIMERICK (By Joseph Cavera) There once was a swordsman named Link Who wore everything from light blue to pink He unsheathed his sword As he confronted a demon horde Who beat him with clubs in a wink Ganondorf ...

The frequent disasters in our fragile land never seem to end and in changing times new horrors abound, terrorist attacks, enormous oil spills strangling the seas, endless amounts of garbage poisoning the land, abundant toxins polluting the air, warning those ...

My Poor Mother’s Country Land by, Melissa R. Mendelson Green earth sways and rolls. This is my mother’s home, But mother, please forgive me. They don’t know the wrong they’ve done. Blue skies have fallen. The gray clouds have come, ...

■ A Stationary Bicycle The doctor tells Phil and his wife he’s in pretty good health for a man his age but he needs to exercise. And Phil says he agrees and then goes on to explain his faith in recliner ...

Old Stag Giddy   Elmer's an old stag now shedding antlers snorting among the trees   but sometimes Martha  after her shower  is a doe beckoning     and he becomes giddy  and heads for the salt lick happy in the breeze ...

A CHILDREN'S PARADISE LOST (By Joseph Cavera) As I sit here This ground shifts Falling further Into roaring rifts The wind scatters As your toes touch the ground, Nothing else matters While you land without a sound Now enter this ...

■ Rethinking Things - By Gil Hoy I should have married                                                                              a computer with                                                                                       high-speed internet at an early age. I wouldn’t have needed                                                                           so much school. Just search for                                                                                “Most useful info” and read on                                                                                            for four years. Grad ...