Editorial Notes
dear all PP Friends, on 8 august, we recommended 6 poems for possible inclusion in the 2015 Best of the Net Anthology , based on the pagevie...
PP's Nominations for Pushcart 2015
the following are the poets and poems we have nominated for the Pushcart Prize for 2015:: I’ve told you the fragility of my love ...
3 Poems by Allen Qing Yuan
Fading, Fading to Black Fading, Fading to Black My shadow engulfing heart It’s grip, tight It screams glaringly in snowy silences Like a dis...
6 Photos by Peter Victor
Bionote Peter Victor is a writer, photographer and poet living in Ellsworth, Maine. He traveled abroad extensively with the United States Me...
3 Poems by Joshua McKinney
A Morphology The wind taught me that I am not a hawk the oak that I am not a squirrel scurries circles up a tree flames too spiral trunk-bar...
1 Poem by Richard Schnap
DIARY OF A GHOST These streets tell me stories Like an old man reading his memoirs Of schools whose lessons I ignored Preferring those I lea...
5 Poems by Doug Mathewson
Crossing The Hudson After her father died, I’d take the pickup to Westchester every Sunday and bring her a carton of Camels. Only family wa...
3 Poems by Chrystal Berche
The Sky Cloud ribbons Stretch Jagged fingers Of color Rainbows Bridge gaps Between wispy strands Starfall Before the stars Fell there was...
5 Poems by Mahnaz Badihian
Everything disappears All the kisses we exchange Every day with ones we love The hates and pains All the sickness and disease Disappears af...
1 Poem by Joyce Joslin Lorenson
Siftings Turn around and let them settle, the siftings. Cold flames fall as ashes through the grate. Snow sifts through cedars. Sand funnels...
2 Poems by Joe Frey
Coffee Stains (variation) when the contents spill an unmistakable blemish forms an imminent pirouette ...
5 Poems by Brentley Frazer
IRUKANDJI SAILS A Ranger found four hundred ghost nets on a seventy kilometre stretch of beach, south of Aurukun. He says ‘the local women, ...
3 Poems by Dan Cardoza
City Coyote You caught my eye as I drove past the burnt sienna field near our home Raised your snout as if to mock my humanity my tether to ...
5 Poems by N. Ullrich Katalin
art gallery (c'est la vie...) tears pains fears strains a show of bitter miseries chiselled in marble etched in iron carved in wood rank...
1 Poem by Leonard Orr
MANNA I had never heard of red velvet cake, I asked, is it like polyester pie, crème de corduroy, denim doughnuts? You rushed to meet me, br...
3 Poems by Neil Ellman
White on White (Kazimir Malevich, painting) And then came white from the spectrum of the mind in every hue and shape all things both great ...
5 Poems by Justin Lowe
Shivers Dreams make liars of us all. I am crimping my nose at her morning coffee, as a worm turns in the magpie’s beak, and her little dog s...
2 Poems by Jeffrey Zable
NOT QUITE THE REAL STORY It’s not like I was close with my best friend’s mother. It’s more that she brings me back to a time ...
4 Poems by Stephen Gill
FOUR POEMS ABOUT THE DOVE MY DOVE The dove of my longing sanctified in the sanctum of serenity wings towards the sky of solitude-- the plane...
2 Poems by Hal O’Leary
THERE’S SOMETHING ELSE With both an open mouth and open mind, There being naught of which I could conceive, I came into this crazy place to ...
2 Poems by Darren C. Demaree
NUDE MALE WITH ECHO #43 It may look radiant, the distance between us & that may be all you desire. I am naked & you are uncomforta...
1 Poem by Suzanna Anderson
Green Clouds The cloud curves through blue as flowers collect dew from birth places. Guts of earth surprise once-clean skin that stumbles h...
3 Poems by Gary Lark
Bugs You can take them into the woods. You can take them on the four lane. You can wrap them in sheets and...
2 Poems by Jim Conwell
The Child His mother is frightened. And she doesn’t like to feel out of her depth. What could you do with a kid who seems to know what the D...
5 Poems by Gary Cummiskey
What’s on today’s menu? A cold-storage plant filled with naked underwear A pocketful of razors A pecan-nut pie found on a sewage heap A half...
1 Poem by Yearn Hong Choi
Hummingbird ---To Georgia O’Keefe 1 A tiny bird’s long beak is penetrating into the nectar of an oasis tree’s flower on the New Mexico deser...
3 Poems by Stefanie Bennett
WILLOW DREAMING Drought’s my season; red earth The soliloquy. Even This creek-bed’s cut its losses. Moribund crab-apple, you recognize My ...
1 Poem by Wendy Gist
Passion Fog Disintegrate external talk into tactile trance. No need to say anything anymore. Misty pull: adored gent’s playful sentiment, an...
