| Helen
Ruggeri - New York, USA |
Found poems: a senryu-style sequence
FOUND
POEMS ON SIGNS
"Classic
Arms"
as if there were
other kinds
Delevan Drive-In
"Closed for the season
God Bless America"
adult bookstore:
"Closed"
no adults here?
Church:
"Jehovah's Witness"
only one?
"Memory Lake"
left at Cadiz Corners
I think
"Natural Area"
and what about the rest
of it?
Helen
Ruggeri
| Michael
Meyerhofer - Iowa, USA |
after
circumcising
their infant son—
young parents debating
whether or not
to dock the puppy
break
room—
placing a phone call
the custodian
brushes crumbs
off the table
the weight lifter
pausing between sets—
...........a ladybug
...........moves
...........out of the way
home from college—
my father’s eyes
watching me flip
and catch
the pocket knife
chinese
restaurant—
on her break
the waitress
eating
with a fork
Michael
Meyerhofer
| Elizabeth
Howard - Tennessee, USA |
in
the pet shop
countless baby rats nursing--
I recall red mouslings
in the chifforobe,
mother with the broom
Elizabeth
Howard
| Terrie Relf
- California, USA |
sleepy
she climbs backwards
down the bunkbed ladder
so like her mother, she moans for
more sleep
semi
(Terrie Relf)
