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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"
Sanctuary
by
Alicia Hoffman
Published: Dec 23, 2024
"I do not feign to understand the heart"
Hibernation Sonnet
by
Alicia Hoffman
Published: Dec 23, 2024
"This is what the mouth is for, the candles say, as they open like tongues for the living."
Early September Dinner Party
by
Sara Eddy
Published: Dec 23, 2024
"we are in love, we are all in love"
Clovers
by
Sara Eddy
Published: Dec 23, 2024
"So I sit on the grass instead,"
Limbo
by
David Lee Garrison
Published: Dec 23, 2024
"Dim lights on and off, phantoms roaming about in the gloom"
The Train
by
Margaret Taylor-Ulizio
Published: Dec 23, 2024
"On that day he made something to eat, I made up my mind."
Interstellar
by
Meggie Royer
Published: Dec 23, 2024
"Meditative in its logic, the way love can slip out of itself like a door."
In Red Lodge, Montana
by
Anne Mesquita
Published: Dec 23, 2024
"City lights blink like stars,"
The Man in Black
by
Anne Mesquita
Published: Dec 23, 2024
"Dad listened to records with his whole body,"
Overwintering: Snapping Turtle
by
Deborah Bennett
Published: Dec 23, 2024
"She hovers in earth's watery pocket."
Afterimage
by
Janine Lehane
Published: Dec 23, 2024
"Shock bleaches the path ahead."
Haiku
by
Hugh Findlay
Published: Dec 23, 2024
ocean lullaby
451
by
Adam Penna
Published: Dec 23, 2024
"Handprints fossilized in rock commenmorate the urge in us that finally endures."
Pit Stops for Weary Hearts
by
Colleen Harris
Published: Dec 23, 2024
"Remember the early chapters when kisses were new"
The Good Ending
by
Colleen Harris
Published: Dec 23, 2024
"A pilgrimage of homecoming."
A Renewal by Moonlight
by
Colleen Harris
Published: Dec 23, 2024
"The lullaby whisper of truth is best heard in the dark..."
Keeping Busy
by
KM Kramer
Published: Dec 23, 2024
"not stopping to feel the stings"
Come Back
by
KM Kramer
Published: Dec 23, 2024
"Reach toward the sun like the grass"
A Season of Sweet Violence
by
Fairness Peck
Published: Dec 23, 2024
"These are early nights of rainy applause"
The Desert
by
Fairness Peck
Published: Dec 23, 2024
"These are our anxious cities and regions where lipstick cakes stain the sidewalks"
Christmas Ghost
by
M. Benjamin Thorne
Published: Dec 23, 2024
"What do ducks know of redemption or grace?"
U-Turn
by
J. A. Lagana
Published: Jan 04, 2025
"Let us say grace."
Yield
by
J. A. Lagana
Published: Jan 04, 2025
"Familiar curls of highway gleam in the pre-dawn"
Respite
by
J. A. Lagana
Published: Jan 04, 2025
"Around the corner /wide sky for miles /the land, yellow-brown and hard"
My Grandfather's Hand
by
Jonathan Ukah
Published: Dec 23, 2024
"I saw his eyes catching fire like autumn leaves"
In Spite of
by
Elly Katz
Published: Dec 23, 2024
"this is how the war begins / the one we didn't know we were fighting"
Calendar
by
Jeffrey Thompson
Published: Dec 23, 2024
"Whose prayer framed the field"
Cedar Canyon
by
Jeffrey Thompson
Published: Dec 23, 2024
"just over that ridge"
Rain
by
Camellia Paul
Published: Dec 23, 2024
"I weave for them an olive branch; I give 'em a seed of rain."
Another Gratitude Poem
by
Victoria Melekian
Published: Dec 23, 2024
"a gorgeous surprise of a life"
Coach
by
Lanay Griessner
Published: Dec 23, 2024
"They were crying out for help, and no one was answering them."
Affixed
by
Abbie Doll
Published: Dec 23, 2024
"the wind gushes her secrets"
Splendor
by
Ed Ruzicka
Published: Dec 23, 2024
"I will place that shawl back over your shoulders"
Labyrinth
by
D Dina Friedman
Published: Dec 23, 2024
"I don't believe in losing hope"
"Desideratum"
by
D Dina Friedman
Published: Dec 23, 2024
"I will plant seeds and try to stop thinking"
Teaching Him How to Two Step, Again
by
Carmel Noel Eichman-Dorr
Published: Dec 23, 2024
"I see, and sweetly so, he still likes to drink and dance"
A Companion on the Couch
by
Glen Mazis
Published: Dec 23, 2024
"She looks like a giant furry caterpillar in autumn"
Asana
by
Mike Wilson
Published: Dec 23, 2024
"Love is yoga in emptiness"
Wolf Moon
by
Jacob Friesenhahn
Published: Dec 23, 2024
"January has two faces"
Reckoning
by
Susan Shea
Published: Dec 23, 2024
"I need to be checked out / by that seeing eye
Things I'd Forgotten I'd Forgotten
by
W. Barrett Munn
Published: Dec 23, 2024
"These invisible feet remember..."
Recitation
by
Elizabeth S. Gunn
Published: Sep 22, 2024
"I laid down beneath the sun, bright and mean as a hungry skull"
Communion
by
Luisa Giulianetti
Published: Sep 22, 2024
"I tilt toward the prismed rose window"
A Made Thing
by
Luisa Giulianetti
Published: Sep 22, 2024
"Break me into the lines of this poem."
Maru Mori
by
Joan Mazza
Published: Sep 22, 2024
"To hold with both hands and relish a mug of hot coffee, without hunger or longing"
Insomnia's Bite
by
Mercedes Lawry
Published: Sep 22, 2024
"The green lamp is angled to a pool of boiled yellow."
Spring 2020
by
Pam Clements
Published: Sep 22, 2024
"When no one can keep up with nature"
A Poet's First Time at a Shooting Range
by
Jonathan Fletcher
Published: Sep 22, 2024
"The same thumb/ that rests on the stock/ supports the shaft of a pencil
The Graves Back Home
by
Darrell Petska
Published: Sep 22, 2024
"My ears unearth chatter all the way back to the mid-‘50s"
Polka Dots
by
Jan Cronos
Published: Sep 22, 2024
"a polish polka as they blithely drop"
Spirit?
by
Jan Cronos
Published: Sep 22, 2024
"his passion for music / gifted to her"
Bird Island
by
Jacob Friesenhahn
Published: Sep 22, 2024
"every day they fly to the landfill to snack on insects buzzing above garbage"
Peony Bush and Boy
by
Bradley Samore
Published: Sep 22, 2024
"mama where do the letters come from"
Those Troubling Obscenities of Saxophones
by
Gene Hyde
Published: Sep 22, 2024
"When was I taught that the world was profane?"
And I Smiled Back
by
R.H. Booker
Published: Sep 22, 2024
"The rusted truck sat on blocks/ sinking into the earth"
Traditions
by
R.H. Booker
Published: Sep 22, 2024
"Passed down across twenty generations"
Orca Bites
by
Beth Williams
Published: Sep 22, 2024
"We are scarred as well, but the biggest voids are within us,"
Your First Tablao
by
Bradley Samore
Published: Sep 22, 2024
"Sangría and string lights sweet under the olive trees"
Echoes
by
Heather Sager
Published: Sep 22, 2024
"a page falls/ a slow turn/ slow like a moth/ wandering toward light,"
Two Grackles
by
Jacob Friesenhahn
Published: Sep 22, 2024
"One grackle looked desperate / one grackle looked bored"
Empty Streets
by
Jonathan Ukah
Published: Sep 22, 2024
"When the silence between them deepens she, too, looks elsewhere,"
A Man in Ted's Position
by
John Grey
Published: Aug 14, 2024
"Within the white walls of the room, he can give his pessimism full rein."
Breakers
by
Joshua Bridgwater Hamilton
Published: Aug 22, 2024
"In this suburban jungle death lounges as though appeased"
A Writer in Iowa
by
John Grey
Published: Aug 14, 2024
"I listen in on the conversation, revel in the authenticity."
Trail of Tears Beans
by
E. D. Watson
Published: Aug 28, 2024
"All the while, this miracle rustled in apron pockets"
Under the Maple Trees
by
Joshua Bridgwater Hamilton
Published: Aug 22, 2024
"They have nothing anyone wants, yet so much peace and quiet they cannot keep it for themselves--"
Believe
by
Kharan Badri
Published: Aug 22, 2024
"People don’t look in one another’s bowls to see how much they have but to ensure they have enough."
Free Lunch
by
Michael J. Grabell
Published: Aug 18, 2024
"This is the American dream, of course – a free meal"
Spinning
by
Serena Watts
Published: Aug 14, 2024
"capture comets, never flies"
The Perfect Victim
by
Michael J. Grabell
Published: Aug 18, 2024
"He won't wear a hoodie or sag his jeans"
Saltwater Downs
by
Noah Walters
Published: Aug 11, 2024
"I drank saltwater from the tap though the nearest ocean is miles away"
Ode to Our Places in Time
by
Darrell Petska
Published: Aug 04, 2024
"No tears nor regrets now, no sorrow for dreams undone"
It's a Dandelion Day!
by
Darrell Petska
Published: Aug 04, 2024
"What’s mine is theirs to use, nursery and airstrip sailing their flighty children on their way.
Life and the Art of Peeling Potatoes
by
Darrell Petska
Published: Aug 04, 2024
"Potatoes proved her passport to community."
Sugar
by
Todd Matson
Published: Jul 31, 2024
"Have you ever seen anyone eat a sugar sandwich?"
Memories of a Flood
by
Shamik Banerjee
Published: Jul 31, 2024
"The regal night sky, once agleam, was purloined of its stars."
Perhaps Paris
by
Robert Harlow
Published: Jul 28, 2024
"At least it happened in Paris, or somewhere very much like it..."
Ryōkan Teaches Me
by
Robert Harlow
Published: Jul 28, 2024
"and if I spread my fingers the moon’s light would soften"
The Lost Among Us
by
Robert Harlow
Published: Jul 28, 2024
"They cannot be recovered from the debris no matter how deep or long you dig."
All the Marks I'll See to the End
by
David A. Goodrum
Published: Jul 21, 2024
"O body constellations…Probed yearly by an orbit of physicians"
Advice for My Four-Year-Old Self
by
David A. Goodrum
Published: Jul 21, 2024
"Stop waiting for your busy mother to wipe your butt"
The Specter
by
E Kraft
Published: Jul 03, 2024
"Then metal grunts in a loud, angry crumble"
Fresh Loaf
by
E Kraft
Published: Jul 03, 2024
"crumbs of memories"
Thunder Saw The Eye Of Storm
by
Ash Slade
Published: Jul 16, 2024
"chords as a euology to the snake-skin of parted days"
Two Haiku
by
W. Barrett Munn
Published: Jul 10, 2024
"the maple trees take a bow"
Some Scars Remind You to be More Vigilant
by
David A. Goodrum
Published: Jul 21, 2024
"Remember the last one alive gets to run naked."
Gales at Night
by
Edward Lees
Published: Jun 26, 2024
"Like life, it is all or nothing."
Definitely Atopic
by
E Kraft
Published: Jul 03, 2024
"a primal instinct overrides rational thought"
Not New Year's
by
Edward Lees
Published: Jun 26, 2024
"The ground grows confident, emergent."
Postcard to My Sister after Crossing Prague's Charles Bridge
by
Kathleen Goldblatt
Published: Jul 17, 2024
"Before an architect put pen to paper, set a ruler, he wanted to solder a city."
Scheherazade
by
Kathleen Goldblatt
Published: Jun 20, 2024
"but you’d leave out the years I was Job, arguing with the Big Guy"
Poem of Photosynthesis I
by
Marc Janssen
Published: Jun 30, 2024
"The light strokes the needle, enticing its chemical reaction"
When I Met Grace
by
Lawrence Bassett
Published: Jun 12, 2024
She is an abnormality / in the torrential downpour / of spandex covered ass
Tight
by
Madeleine French
Published: Jun 16, 2024
"the space between an earnest comment and unwelcome advice"
Sunday Hymns
by
Madeleine French
Published: Jul 07, 2024
"My mother scolded me once, when I didn’t stand up at Communion."
Fireflies
by
W. Barrett Munn
and
Arvilla Fee
Published: Jun 09, 2024
"I onlyknow one star has landed in my palm..."
A New Shore
by
Kathleen Goldblatt
Published: Jun 19, 2024
"Spread a blanket next to strangers, feast on briny clams."
We Will Meet Again
by
Kaylee Gerbig
and
Arvilla Fee
Published: Jun 05, 2024
"We'll meet at each eclipse with a kiss, a moment frozen in cosmic bliss."
Judgment Day
by
W. Barrett Munn
Published: Jul 10, 2024
"Is learningto live with regret the sameas being human?"
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