Summer's onslaught edging into May bakes this swampy yard. Iced coffee levels out the day outside and the guest room has a bed and fan cool as petals on the water ...the mind is groggy … [Read more...]
5 Poems by Sam Silva
A STORY OF GLACIAL WATERS You are a little older than me in years if not in heart. And if you, in the final cup you drink cause the trees and the clouds and the sun to sink I will know again … [Read more...]
The End of the World Through a Fish Bowl
In summer time I am an air conditioned icicle ...in winter, the steam which haunts the house. I will not go into the grocery store with you Rachel ...I will ride along in the car and be a … [Read more...]
Long Before the Peaceful Song: Poems
Long Before the Peaceful Song Sick in the dark before dawn irrupts shedding light on the need to sleep the dead like me pondering their being against that sole thing unforgiven. There is … [Read more...]
For the Woman Who Keeps My Forever
We struggle to appear as golden embers gone beyond days of the christchild drawing near when we get old...winter nights and brittle cold drowsy days and melting ice Februaries' left over … [Read more...]
4 poems by Sam Silva
BLISS Mindless piano trills from the online station ...bright lights!, they might flicker to a migraine while a mind on the other side of me desires something else of the near to swallowed pain … [Read more...]
Once As a Child and Long Ago: seven poems by Sam Silva
Once As a Child and Long Ago Once as a child and long ago I was in love with the idea of junk with Peter Pan and Cheerios and the sacred high of the great TV and blue songs which Bob Dylan … [Read more...]
Things Happen and three other poems by Sam Silva
THINGS HAPPEN Thank God these days I sleep and dream! Things happen ...it is inevitable!, this angry wrangling of the nerves in a place that feels like Hell or a paranoid respite full of … [Read more...]