by Mike | Feb 7, 2022 | Acumen Issues
Editorial Poems: Kim Waters, Billy Fenton, Regi Claire, Clifford Liles, Maggie Wadey, Robert Colman, Anne Britting Oleson, Kevin Higgins, Robbie Burton Interview with Seán Street – David Perman Poems: Hannah Linden, Lindy Newns, Huw Gwynn-Jones, Alan Zhukovski, Robert...
by Mike | Feb 7, 2022 | Young Poets
golden hour The kids are out of school, flappingtheir coats around, attempting teenagewingspan, spinning as if they would leavea trail of feathers behind them. They’re competingwith the screeching of Canadian geeseand swans who finally reclaimthe water from the...
by Mike | Feb 7, 2022 | Young Poets
Garden (for Joan Lawson) You are my opus,My valuable,My green-thumbed work. As rainbow-producingHose sprays of aquaScatter your greenery, Your beauty becomesObvious to me.When I litter little seeds — Or pull weeds from thePermeable soilIn your dominion — Or watch...
by Mike | Feb 1, 2022 | Guest Poems
Translator, Traitor The War was 39 to 45,of course. Suffering for the sake of a cause –common enemies, common memories. La Guerra, 36 to 39,was brother killing brother, scores settledwith the neighbours, decades of reprisals, memorials in every village square.They...
by Mike | Feb 1, 2022 | Guest Poems
Enough Sudden sunlight drops a thin layer of white over the World where I sit. It’s just a few photons thick but is enough to be a whetstone to my sight, Enough to make the pond a glittering mass of precious stones And the flowering Magnolia a mass of bright white...
