Mehr Licht by Sharon Perkins Ackerman If I do a search for poems with the word light in the title, I get 12,600 hits. For dark, I get 6,000. This doesn’t scratch the surface of how many […]

SUCHNESS and DITCH LILIES, 2 poems by Linda Parsons SUCHNESS Unable to find a bait station, the termite guy says Call me when you’ve trimmed all this. I say It’s supposed to be this way, a cot […]

One Moment Along the Food Chain by Marsha Owens This moment demands my attention. Tiny turtles, vulnerable as polar bears, bubble up from their sandy womb, struggle towards light borrowed from the […]

Cafe con Leche by Benjamin Schmitt When you add cream to your coffee there is a moment of storm beneath the surface, the possibility of a sinner planting a kiss on the gates of […]

The Investment by Jacqueline Coleman-Fried My eyes, full of my husband’s body thinning, swelling, sleeping— too full to notice the plant, six feet tall, emerald leaves spl […]

Hansel by Claire Rubin Scott Why does she get all the praise just because she pushed the witch into blood-burning flames it was me who gathered shiny white pebbles glistening […]

It's Done, Beautifully Again by Tim Suermondt Tim Suermondt has earned an Honorable Mention in Streetlight’s 2024 Poetry Contest It’s Done, Beautifully Again My wife, Pui Ying, shows me her […]

The world's ugliest coffee table. Probably made by Martha Stewart in prison by Wayne Bowman OK. Here’s the back story. A couple of years ago, I walked into the living room one Sunday morning, and noticed one of the big pillows my wife and I […]

For Notre Dame by Sian M. Jones An 800-year-old cathedral is burning to the ground. The world is in horror that things, too, can die, though we thought them immune or […]

Before the Ambulance and Dandelion, 2 poems by Dennis Cummings Before the Ambulance I saw him collapse on the trail that divides the golf course, then climbs and looks over the valley crowded with […]

Moonlight by Ronald Stottlemyer This is the light of stillness after everything has been said and thought, after the day has been brought to its knees once more, after the […]

Heaven Spot by Mark Belair In a dark subway tunnel between stations, a concave safety niche holds a grotto of graffiti unseen unless you happen to glance out when the […]

Cursed by Tess Matukonis For your birth, metal instruments sing you and your fluorescent halo into being. At your baptism you are pressed by the hands of power into […]

Goodbye to Love Atop Old Priest Grade by Mary Pacifico Curtis I have a fondness for our imperfect union that started with a swindle – too much money for land and a set of plans that had hung over the place l […]

The Emily Dickinson Revery Construction Guide by Robert Harlow Before she invented the ladder to the sky, she first invented the sky to have somewhere to go. Then she pulled the ladder up after […]

Of Goats and Men by Sharon Ackerman I step outside right at sunrise when night creatures are still on the move. It’s a threshold hour, a groundhog slogs under the fence or a fawn s […]

Dolphin, with Number by Ty Phelps Ty Phelps has earned an Honorable Mention in Streetlight’s 2023 Poetry Contest Dolphin, with Number The city stretches out beyondthe marshland, […]

Scientists Say it's Time to Prepare for Human Extinction by David B. Prather —article title by Gwyn Wright, via swns.com ……………..             …..Let me make light of the situation, travel to the nearest inter […]

The Driver by John Beck John Beck has earned an Honorable Mention in Streetlight’s 2023 Poetry Contest The Driver In 1925, Pius XI made you, St. Frances, the patron of […]

We Left My Father and Sister at Home by Joan Mazza Joan Mazza has earned an Honorable Mention in Streetlight’s 2023 Poetry Contest We Left My Father and Sister at Home Because my mother didn’t d […]