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Poetry Breakfast

Serving a little poetic nourishment Monday thru Friday and featuring a Short Play Saturday Matinee to read.

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Superior Product – A Poem by John Grey

Superior Product  An advertising sign blares against a backdrop of blue sky and scattered clouds, drawing the attention of both women and men, now suddenly convinced there is a far superior washing powder to the one they have been using.... Continue Reading →

One Bad Date – A Poem by Travis Laurence Naught

One Bad Date There is an armadillo underneath the art-house picture frame. It’s holding two blue slushies and an answering machine. No one knows how he got there. By snooping around where the leftover popcorn gets thrown out seems most... Continue Reading →

Gray Hope – A Poem by Tricia Knoll

Gray Hope I fold back our bed sheets this morning to match the rolls of cloud billows sliding like pillows into the naked hot sky. My feet slip to the tuck at the mattress to test the cool slickness that... Continue Reading →

Morning Poem – A Poem by Jennifer Judge

Morning Poem In the moments before the day begins, I am alone. Almost full moon still visible through the narrow slit of a window in the back of the house. Dawn breaks in an instant: Look out one window and... Continue Reading →

Happy Hour Revisited – A Poem by William Doreski

Happy Hour Revisited Like the promise of rain in drought you perch on a barstool and smirk in rainbows of special effects. Baseball slogs away on TV. The bartender keeps refilling you with splashes of molten gold. I want to... Continue Reading →

The Poems are in The Soil – A Poem by Rebecca Villineau

The Poems are in The Soil Beneath the rocks and broken brick Below the fossils of cat bones They are there Fertilizing the ground Adding phosphorus and calcium Mulching through the earthworms I am full of distractions So I must... Continue Reading →

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