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Poetry Published by San Antonio Review
Mingo Dreaming
by
Larry Smith
Published: Jul 15, 2020
"It’s hard to be a city at night, sleeping along this big river. So much wakes you from slumber ... "
3:54
by
RC deWinter
Published: Feb 26, 2020
"for the 13th time i’ve looked at the time / glowing back from the phone that never sleeps"
Flowers and Weeds
by
Lucia Cherciu
Published: Oct 02, 2023
"Who knows whose ideas cross-pollinate?"
Geraniums in the Studio
by
Lucia Cherciu
Published: Aug 23, 2023
"so much red, so much hope"
Controlled burn
by
Derek R. Smith
Published: Sep 03, 2023
Here I stand, rooted, once hopeful, once a sapling self
Last Will
by
Daniel Romo
Published: Sep 24, 2023
"she was unable to wrap the man that I am"
Blue Zones
by
Daniel Romo
Published: Sep 24, 2023
"I reside in a zone the color of May and murky beach water"
Something Timeless About a Death
by
Bob Kirkley
Published: Jul 23, 2023
"We might even have loved each other"
Meditations On Faith
by
Ash Slade
Published: Jul 26, 2023
"the unbolting of bottled up showers"
My Father is an Overgrown Jungle
by
Ash Slade
Published: Jul 26, 2023
"A feral cornucopia, unmaimed"
Last Night Just Before Midnight I Ordered Calvin Klein Boxer Briefs on eBay
by
Daniel Romo
Published: Sep 24, 2023
"I’m so awake that I debate purchasing new underwear or Tupperware lids"
Grace
by
Bob Kirkley
Published: Jul 23, 2023
"I do understand the symbolism of it"
Writing Haiku
by
Evan Vandermeer
Published: Jul 16, 2023
"in its fruitless pecking I know there resides a poem"
Kathy's Waltz
by
Corey Bryan
Published: Oct 02, 2023
"rediscovering your two left feet"
Only a Small-Time Gambler
by
Chris Dahl
Published: Sep 17, 2023
"How fragile the balance is and yet I make choices."
Last Night's Return to the Past
by
Chris Dahl
Published: Aug 07, 2023
"facades ripped open, concrete and re-bar exposed"
The Grammar of Eyes
by
Sreekanth Kopuri
Published: Sep 27, 2023
"alchemy of phrases"
Words
by
Sreekanth Kopuri
Published: Sep 27, 2023
"Some are on the surface"
Once, I Danced with Trees
by
Chris Dahl
Published: Jul 10, 2023
"Perhaps I'm still dancing out there"
Nothing Remains
by
Sreekanth Kopuri
Published: Sep 27, 2023
"Because we sentence the Earth with capitalized letters"
This Time It's the Maple
by
Jennifer B. Kahnweiler
Published: Sep 13, 2023
"her red lobed leaves like a prima ballerina"
At the Waterfall
by
Byron Beynon
Published: Sep 10, 2023
"an upfling of savagery"
After Pissaro
by
Byron Beynon
Published: Sep 10, 2023
"those anonymous shadows with hushed umbrellas"
Parched
by
Suzanne Cottrell
Published: Sep 13, 2023
"Worn sandstone sizzled"
The Sketch
by
Byron Beynon
Published: Sep 10, 2023
"losing himself on the paper's cheekbones"
Temple of Hope
by
Ayisha Silverson
Published: Aug 16, 2023
"Built on pure intentions"
THE SHAPE OF THINGS
by
E.C. Traganas
Published: Sep 06, 2023
“First of all, she would use all the wrong words”
My Friend Talks about Death Like It's Just Another Task to Check Off the To-Do List, Like Getting a Cavity Filled or Taking out the Recycling
by
Sarah Mills
Published: Aug 27, 2023
"I have finally mastered letting go."
I Dream about My Friend Who Died During the Pandemic and Didn't Get a Funeral
by
Sarah Mills
Published: Aug 27, 2023
Empty Barstool
by
Joe Barca
Published: Aug 02, 2023
"Rejection letters fill my throat."
Come, Let Us Gather
by
Mary Lynne Gasaway Hill
Published: Aug 30, 2023
"Come, Let Us Gather, here in this womb of kinship"
Nest Egg
by
W. Barrett Munn
Published: Aug 20, 2023
Am I looking up at flowers?
Modeling Clay
by
W. Barrett Munn
Published: Aug 20, 2023
Men behind the wheel, and kids were clay.
Cause "bad things get Better"
by
Tyson Wilson
Published: Mar 15, 2023
"she gave me a clover keychain and kissed my head"
When You Write This Letter
by
Amanda Rosas
Published: Aug 23, 2023
"pen it like the stab of a needle"
Calloused Hands
by
W. Barrett Munn
Published: Aug 20, 2023
all you knew was the pounding, pounding
If your love was an ocean
by
Fernando Morales
Published: Aug 07, 2023
"all I would see is blue"
Rage-Reading Einstein After My Parents Died 27 Days Apart
by
Margaret Anne Kean
Published: Jul 30, 2023
"Let me bend the time-space continuum/cut the tether that ties me inside my skin"
The Faded Calendar
by
Margaret Anne Kean
Published: Aug 14, 2023
"One page from an old monthly calendar remained"
A Lament Rises from the Nursing Home
by
Margaret Anne Kean
Published: Jul 30, 2023
"A shadow covers his brain"
Peaches
by
Anastasios Mihalopoulos
Published: Jul 19, 2023
"They could lose themselves in the simplicity of fruit."
Beacon
by
Anastasios Mihalopoulos
Published: Jul 19, 2023
"Fisherman forget the shore."
A bath
by
Lawson Wang
Published: Aug 02, 2023
"you are being crowned with overnight feelings"
Last Rites
by
Margaret Anne Kean
Published: Aug 14, 2023
"Mom's thirst for air called out one last time"
Nocturne with Surfboard
by
Anastasios Mihalopoulos
Published: Jul 19, 2023
"An off-black sheet grows behind us on the thing we call the horizon."
A Medusa
by
Ankur Jyoti Saikia
Published: Jul 12, 2023
"He couldn't skip a heartbeat"
An Old Tree
by
Shalini Narang
Published: Jul 02, 2023
"A heavy breeze may leave it shaken"
Blackout Ceromancy
by
Karlo Sevilla
Published: Jun 25, 2023
"You dance with abandon"
Seiches
by
Karlo Sevilla
Published: Jun 25, 2023
"Sometimes, it's just a purple kite"
Gramps and I
by
Darrell Petska
Published: Jul 09, 2023
"out and back, Gramps and I, out and back"
Squall Lines
by
Roxanne Cardona
Published: Jul 05, 2023
"The sky bleeds gray"
Don't Sweat It
by
Roxanne Cardona
Published: Jun 21, 2023
"All signs point to a confession."
Floating Between Two Shores
by
Roxanne Cardona
Published: Jul 05, 2023
"She never spoke in shades, only primary colors, geometric shapes
One Story - Open School Night
by
Roxanne Cardona
Published: Jul 26, 2023
"the sky hung on a street pole"
Welcome to Summer School
by
Roxanne Cardona
Published: Jun 21, 2023
"Me. A study in oatmeal"
Exchange, Cusp, and Delhi
by
Ankit Raj Ojha
Published: Jun 18, 2023
"privilege thrives at convenience"
People Haiku: Old Spice, Solo, Partisan & Time
by
Hugh Findlay
Published: Jun 11, 2023
I'm so damned mortal
No. 27, Strážnice
by
Kathleen Goldblatt
Published: Jun 07, 2023
Blue and white fresco swirls above the door like strips of icing that would never melt
Kateřina
by
Kathleen Goldblatt
Published: Jun 07, 2023
"I traced the sunken letters of her name"
Jane and the Raven
by
John Grey
Published: May 17, 2023
Jane wrapped it in her backpack, bore it home
This Vacant Lot
by
John Grey
Published: May 17, 2023
Weeds grow aplenty. And so does broken glass.
The Stray
by
Denise Pendleton
Published: Jun 04, 2023
How hard just to watch her, asleep and dreaming on the edge of wild.
Dear Mother Earth
by
Denise Pendleton
Published: Jun 04, 2023
Forgive me for giving into the convenience of this aluminum foil
Diving In
by
Denise Pendleton
Published: May 24, 2023
eyes open to light shimmering across water, to kayaks laid like crayons of many colors
Tree Haiku: Autumn, New, & Horizon
by
Hugh Findlay
Published: May 31, 2023
Skin of sycamore
American Boys
by
Brett Atkinson
Published: May 28, 2023
"A Lucky Strike behind the ear"
Hunting Henry, Calling Echo
by
Denise Pendleton
Published: May 24, 2023
"we call and call as if they understand our need to own them"
Infinity Pustule
by
Ashwini Gangal
Published: May 21, 2023
"Why is everyone down with the flu, mamma? Oh, but that's what it means to be alive, my love."
If a Rose
by
Ryan Nightingale
Published: May 14, 2023
"If a rose can be so sweet, despite having razor teeth"
A Dairy Man Remembers
by
John Grey
Published: May 17, 2023
Some cows hated the touch of hands.
Betta
by
Brandon McQuade
Published: May 07, 2023
"like a ribbon in a sea of light"
Quarantine
by
Brandon McQuade
Published: May 07, 2023
"Sunlight bends and breaks"
The River
by
Ryan Nightingale
Published: May 14, 2023
"Ghosts of the past now a jury"
Crow Magnon
by
Mary Croy
Published: Apr 19, 2023
"you would think they owned the place"
Rabbit
by
Mary Croy
Published: Apr 19, 2023
"waiting for the wind to settle"
Walking with Mom
by
Shalini Narang
Published: May 10, 2023
I too, will grow old and maybe ramble and bore
Roly Poly
by
Brandon McQuade
Published: May 07, 2023
"crawls like a time capsule"
When Wind Turbine Blades Expire
by
Cathryn Shea
Published: Apr 16, 2023
"The blades will be buried in common pits"
Love Story of Pears
by
Cathryn Shea
Published: Apr 16, 2023
"In summer my day could revolve around this tree"
The Shades Pulled Up and Down
by
Cathryn Shea
Published: Apr 16, 2023
"Their maps have folded is disobedience"
Dinner at My House
by
Danielle Meyer
Published: Apr 12, 2023
"Dinner at my house will be bread with extra butter"
Hollywood
by
Hiram Larew
Published: Apr 30, 2023
"I'd give my good eye to be an eyeful"
The Weight of Two Oranges
by
lynda wilde
Published: Apr 23, 2023
"the edge of a hot day"
Neverland
by
Danielle Meyer
Published: Apr 12, 2023
"Our love was magic, impossible, like flying dust"
Drifts
by
Benjamin Harnett
Published: Apr 02, 2023
"Now the air is thick with drifts of milkweed seed"
BBQ
by
Mary Croy
Published: Apr 19, 2023
"even a burnt b is good"
Bedrock
by
Benjamin Harnett
Published: Apr 02, 2023
"the handiwork of old lives' patching"
Trash Burning
by
Alison Hicks
Published: Apr 26, 2023
'The match would catch a corner"
Cure Redux
by
Cathryn Shea
Published: Apr 16, 2023
"Who among us does not crave a cure?"
In Training for After Middle Age
by
Michelle Hendrixson-Miller
Published: Mar 26, 2023
"In a city like this one, I can be invisible, mute."
To My Father, Who Once Said, You're So Open Your Brains are Going to Fall Out
by
Michelle Miller
Published: Mar 26, 2023
"I left him after twenty years"
Cheers
by
Kenton K. Yee
Published: Mar 22, 2023
"This one stirs up cosmos"
Let Be Be the Irony of Seem
by
Kenton K. Yee
Published: Mar 22, 2023
"a three cheese blend"
The Marble Machine
by
Joyce Kelley
Published: Dec 24, 2022
"An uncle's gift to an abandoned child"
A Rake's Progress
by
Bruce Robinson
Published: Mar 12, 2023
"No complaint from the rake"
Prenuptial Prayer
by
Kenton K. Yee
Published: Mar 22, 2023
"It's been so long since I was young"
Emergence
by
Whitney Hurwitz
Published: Mar 19, 2023
"A reminder to us all"
Disinformation Campaign
by
Matthew Byrne
Published: Mar 08, 2023
"Hells bells should they glimpse a hint of truth"
(True) Love in an Elevator
by
Matthew Byrne
Published: Mar 08, 2023
"could deny our love no more than a bird its song"
Christmas Pecans
by
Joyce Kelley
Published: Dec 24, 2022
"naked and golden brown"
Ferretccine
by
Tyson Wilson
Published: Mar 15, 2023
"Bouncing on black beans"
Advice from the Mechanic
by
Bruce Robinson
Published: Mar 12, 2023
"wrong"
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