Poem of the Day
Study of Children
By Asha Futterman
did you know
that you all work for me?
I asked them as a joke
Poetry: 1970s
Prototypes
By Edwin Brock
King George the Fifth
looked like my grandfather
and felt as close
Written After Finding a Dolphin Skull on the Gulf of California
By Michael McClure
YEAH, OR MAYBE LIVE IN FANTASIES / WITHIN A DOLPHIN'S SKULL!
Guerilla Girls
By Lorenzo Thomas
Can you be busted for fucking / The enemy? The radio is curiously / Still in the tropical night
Displacement
By Lorenzo Thomas
Wish you were heir / To more naturalness / Than simple lust
We Believe Like Wildfire
By Stephen A. Canada
Silences of darkness are / Windows into water
Black See Girls
By Stephen A. Canada
Passing through, / passing through the sea’s afternoons
Poem
By Jim Brodey
Back at San Francisco Greyhound, leaning / and I’m not thinking or yearning / I’m just leaning.
Unemployed Tunes
By Jim Brodey
this is Walt Whitman speaking
For Jack
By Jim Gustafson
The old Hudson is an odd lumpy cock
standing on its nose in a ditch full of mud.
I want to think that you’re asleep
Poem
By Charlie Vermont
my muse wears contact lenses,
maybe she’ll never see
past suburbia