Poets published January – April 2026

 Three Poems by J.R. Solonche

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Two Poems by O...

Passage “Whatever returns from oblivion returns to find a voice…”             -Louise Glück . A place of no windows, no moonlight—you trace . the walls with your hands as you inch forward. . Sometimes you kneel for a while, let grief . come upon you. In the distance– a grey dot becomes . a grey star, then a grey door swinging into shado...

Nothing . (a) Atoms are up to ninety-ninety % nothing. The desk upon which my computer rests is mostly nothing— not air, because air is something, no, pure nothing, whatever nothing is (which seems contradictory to ask). . I too am mostly nothing and so are you. Seems sort of Oriental. Why is there something rather than nothing? A universe of nothing, mostly, and yet th...

 Sleight . Speech levitates the text from the paper like a medium who summons spirits to manifest, . directing them to rise, substantial, yet floating, like sky lanterns, astonishing the audience . with this weightless power, hammered from air, an incantation of sounds, as short-lived as breath. . that binds the heart rendering the invisible sensible. . Si...

Adorned . your words swirl ribbons around my neck: unbridled beauty that constrains . I am adorned with faux pearls dangling like promises . keep me at your side I smile and laugh  as you expect . sip cocktails that taste like hairspray . pressure of your hand – small of my back . I yank the necklace spilling fake pearls that cause  men in suits to trip . Eri...