What Happened
A poem by Lakshmi Krishnan (Editor's Choice)
What happened to the lyric, eh?
And the starving, blazing pen
Rippled paper, the maleficent word
Spartan, pristine, harvest, and sound
Something's got to give
Or brazenly we'll go
With our heads obeying injunctions
And our arms in sacred knots
Writing's saving the world
Well, cosmic time and space
And if it stirs a thousand ways
It still prizes one
We are not frightened
Or selfish and mad
But politic and just
And equipped to hassle
To worry ourselves in a trap
Gnawing until our wounds are bled
Red, raw, frenetic, and dull
Glistening whiteness and teeth sharped like bone
Winter 2006-2007 Poetry:
AS WINTER COMES by Nancy Abdel Messieh
BOUNDARY STONES #1 & #2 by Alison
Eastley
WHAT HAPPENED by Lakshmi Krishnan
SYLVIA PLATH by Brian Willems
(tanka) by Dorothy McLaughlin
A BAD DAY by Nicholas Messenger
REVOLUTION by Heather Larsen
DIRTY FLOORS by Sam Friedman
JULIA by Michael Internicola
YOU ARE PART OF THIS by A. Thiagarajan
INAUDIBLE GESTURES GROWN ALL TOO COLD
by C. Allen Rearick
HOW LONG THE NIGHT WAS by Gary Charles
Wilkens
DREAM OF THE GARDEN by Lance Newman
SHE by Aimee Cirucci
LAUNDRY BOY'S CHANGE by Julian Haladyn
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