Our dog, dachsund-and-chihuahua, fell redly to us from her family tree. After the usual medical exam, shots, spaying, and licensing, she was with us for 17 years. But one day in her middle age, we had just finished dinner and were eating fruit, and someone gave her a dark purple plum. Instead of immediately eating … Continue reading Plum Mother by Michael Nickels-Wisdom| Lost Balloon
He sat perched in his old place, where he had sat a thousand times before. From that lofty height he turned and gazed upon the green patched floor. He saw all that there was to see; there the smoking chimneys and there the willow trees. Nothing could escape his gaze, there was nothing there he did not know. He knew the lanes, their bends and straights. He knew the hedges, farms and loam. He knew each cheerful homestead and each happy family. He knew the little streams and brooks, he knew each...| The Bookends Review
This is another example of prose poetry. The poem owes its origins to real events that occurred during an Australian summer when I was a teenager. It is strange to be recalling a summertime event in the middle of an Australian winter, but it was an unforgettable time and it often resurfaces, particularly when I revisit my old home town.| alanjwrightpoetrypizzazz.blogspot.com
“While Supplies Last” is in Six Sentences, May 30, 2025. “Didn’t See That Coming,” “Suburb,” and “Chicken Man,” three prose poems, appear in Doubly Mad, in May, 2025. “Switchblade” is in Haikuuinerse, May 102025 . “Getting My Buzz On” is in in Six Sentences May 8, 2025. “Like a Billionaire” appears in Six Sentences […]| Brad Rose Poetry
Tied to the Wind is a work of auto-fiction, a memoir assembled in sequenced fragments, a long necklace of memories taken from a peripatetic 70s and 80s childhood and adolescence spent shuttling bet…| Poem as Totem
