Soul Fountain
Poem – Outsiders (By Robert Beveridge)
Outsiders The Club sits in the back in the middle talks over old times it's an amoeba that splits every once in a while pieces go off to New York or Indianapolis but always pull back together up here a ...
Poem – Dial ‘M’ for Memories (By Donal Mahoney)
Willie in his 80s now hadn’t made sense in years. His wife understood his grunts from the recliner where she propped him up till bedtime where snoring was music in the night. His grandson told neighbors Gramps had Old-Timer’s Disease, ...
Poem – On the Death of Dada (By Robert Beveridge)
On the Death of Dada Face your fate, old friend. The Cabaret Voltaire's been closed. The movement's at its end, but I suppose That those of us who live In the snakepit's writhing dance Have learned, through you, to give ...
Poem – Earthquake (By David Russell)
Earthquake What happened? There was a fault. What’s a fault? It’s when one piece of the earth juts above another. Why does that happen? Because the explosion down below Goes on forever. But was that fault anybody’s? It was the ...
Poem – Freckles They Called Him (By Donal Mahoney)
Freckles They Called Him Walter Branham, a retired teacher, and his wife Victoria went to Applebee’s, the chain restaurant, for lunch one day last week. First time they had gone there. Usually they go to an ethnic restaurant but ...
Poem – Complacency (By David Russell)
Complacency You had the world eat from your hand And thought you had it made To fade into your fantasies. Nobody came to put you down, And so you never rose; You smiled and sang in blindness And your wine ...
Poem – AN OPEN LETTER TO GOD (By R. J. Erbacher)
AN OPEN LETTER TO GOD Dinosaurs lived on this planet for 165 million years and God was patient but then He said “This ain’t working out so good,” and He threw a big rock at the earth. Man has lived ...
Poem – Big Bang for Little Billy (By Donal Mahoney)
■ Big Bang for Little Billy This was the first Christmas Billy was old enough to speak when he saw his gifts under the sparkling tree. His parents were waiting to hear what he’d say. Billy laughed and jumped and clapped his ...
Poem – Earthquake (By David Russell)
Earthquake What happened? There was a fault. What’s a fault? It’s when one piece of the earth juts above another. Why does that happen? Because the explosion down below Goes on forever. But was that fault anybody’s? It was the ...
Poem – For You as You Die (By Valentina Cano)
My fingertips thrummed with your heartbeat which lapped at me, a tongue in a bowl, a ticking turn signal. I watched your breath grow downy with fear and hoped you could walk out of the room on your own. Bio: ...
