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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"
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?"
A Banyan in Lahaina
by
W. Barrett Munn
Published: Jun 09, 2024
"Hundred-year-oldHawaiian trees have a history to honor."
Sand is Eternal
by
Marc Janssen
Published: Jun 30, 2024
"I wish I was more like sandthat way I could hitch a ride between your toes"
The Countess of Getty
by
Madeleine French
Published: Jun 16, 2024
"Her hair echoes the azure skirt, spiky blue tips shimmering in the gallery lights. "
Outside the Temple, Waiting for Christine
by
John Grey
Published: May 30, 2024
"My facade apparentlyis something less than architecture."
Vernazza Daydreams
by
Elizabeth Fletcher
Published: Jun 02, 2024
"We were dizzy with ourselves"
Nostalgia for Dummies
by
John Grey
Published: May 30, 2024
"Sure, I'm driving, but I'm not cruising."
All the Comfort Necessary
by
Robert Harlow
Published: Jul 28, 2024
"and she will look up from whatever she's doing...to welcome you in"
Public Transportation
by
Bill Garvey
Published: May 12, 2024
"I would have missed the young man trying to get on at Christie, beating the door with both fists"
Dundas Station
by
Bill Garvey
Published: May 12, 2024
"It hit me hard--a starving woman in a city of 6 million"
Tadarida
by
Phil Nobile
Published: May 08, 2024
"We make black tendrils against a setting sun"
Bobby & Me
by
Bill Garvey
Published: May 12, 2024
"and there I was next to Robert DeNiro"
In Eden
by
Steffen Horstmann
Published: Jun 12, 2024
"You dream of the cherub's flaming sword"
Entangled
by
Sarai Argüelles
Published: May 05, 2024
"i inspected our roots"
April 1st
by
Sarai Argüelles
Published: May 05, 2024
"I don't know if you're coming back."
The Last Touch
by
Devon Neal
Published: May 01, 2024
"I wish someone could have told me...which time was the last time"
The Golden Rose
by
Ruth Holzer
Published: Apr 28, 2024
"How weary it must be of remaining in full bloom"
Initials
by
Devon Neal
Published: May 01, 2024
"I learned your shape, your warmth"
Unnameable
by
Marla Dial
Published: Apr 25, 2024
"I wake up to the currents of Time rushing on"
Itanos
by
Ruth Holzer
Published: Apr 28, 2024
"You are alone with the stony heat"
Butterflies and Goosebumps
by
Prince Mbele
Published: Apr 17, 2024
"I've been at war for awhile now"
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