The Owatonna Library
A black bear rears up ponders the long ripple in the grass beyond, the space of its wake in the …
Author Archives: Ronald E. Shields
Watching Nightfall at Land’s End, Maine
Early stars hang over the water, birds frozen in the sky. Gulls circle, drop from the sky for crabs …
self-exam (my body is a cage) by Nick Flynn : The Poetry Foundation
self-exam (my body is a cage) by Nick Flynn : The Poetry Foundation. Do this: take two fingers, place them …
Ephemera
This is a very fine poem…
Van Morrison…
Fly Like Picasso
It’s not often one gets a picture of what an artist’s soul looks like…
Reading Plato
A glass menagerie clear crystal animals, light filtered by venetian blinds makes them fluid on the wall. Moving as …
Untitled
There was this once before the writing dried up and I became wet with beer piss. Once when the words …
Crossing the Street in Laguna Beach, poem by John Gardiner
Originally posted on Silver Birch Press:
CROSSING THE STREET IN LAGUNA BEACH by John Gardiner Thank you for not killing me in…
The Bad Old Days by Kenneth Rexroth : The Poetry Foundation
The Bad Old Days by Kenneth Rexroth : The Poetry Foundation.
Poetry on the run 