The Valiant Ones
Posted on May 15, 2013 by A&U in Positively Literary
Poetry by Afzal Moolla The Valiant Ones they left so abruptly the valiant ones countless many known many more nameless the truest sons and singers husbands and poets lovers and wives daughters and farmers workers and sisters brothers and friends they left so abruptly with quiet pride steely courage gentle dignity they left so abruptly [...]
Two Poems
Posted on April 17, 2013 by A&U in Positively Literary
Two Poems by Melissa Fry Beasley To My Beloved Aunt and Friend Something mysterious that came out of nowhere wouldn’t leave us alone, this thing we would not believe in. You cannot pass through such things without pause. We watched as you went dying and singing, your strength exhausted by the unrelenting struggle. Wearing grace [...]
Riddle
Posted on July 11, 2012 by A&U in Positively Literary
Lacking self-reliance I am opportunistic Replicate madly Exist non-cellular Abhor succor, neither Gather favorites How indemnification vexes— My aides scurry Acquire Mass reversal Syndromic streams Damaged signs and wonders Outcast entity is my name I exist to reject & Survival depends on trace Clammy spaces, especially The mind Come on now… Murder me Kill deceit [...]
Summer Reading 2012: Poetry by Patrick Donnelly
Posted on June 27, 2012 by A&U in Positively Literary
Prayer for Immunity in Grand Army Plaza At a quarter to dusk a moon froze in the groin of an elm, horses on the arch dragged their bronze wagon through Brooklyn toward another war. When I was young in the desert they warned never walk arroyos when it rains, water can crash down those gullies [...]
Summer Reading 2012: Poetry by Rupert Fike
Posted on June 21, 2012 by A&U in Positively Literary
From a Sick Girl in Burkina Faso —near the Mali border, 1999 Ce n’est pas bon—It’s not good— these are the words spoken in kindness, the name of my sickness left unspoken so my whole family, even Uncle Solo, won’t have to leave this village, these mango trees, this Falani milk. Because of me, because [...]
(Billions of years ago)
Posted on February 14, 2012 by A&U in Positively Literary
Poetry by d m myles Billions of years ago there was a moment (or many millennia) of infinite density. A massive explosion caused the universe to begin to expand. Your life, all the pain and joy, curiosity and satisfaction, dreams and realities, the whole of your being is an integral part of that expansion. You [...]
Eavesdropper, 1990
Posted on January 23, 2012 by A&U in Positively Literary
Poetry by Andrew Demcak Notice his damp curtains as the drafts pass. He happens upon those topics like need, absently. His queer kind of alchemy. A predecessor marked by cashmere scarf, red smear on his neck. Upon sicker bone, dying bones he piles. Malicious firebug loose in someone’s distractions. So-and-so’s lover tested positive! That harmful [...]
Asolar
Posted on December 18, 2011 by A&U in Noteworthy, Positively Literary
Poetry by Brent Armendinger “Without sun,” said the young man, “it means there is no sun,” and then he held out his hand, as if for me but not. A word was caught inside a semicolon in the dictionary between “to devastate” and “to plague.” I thought he might point to something for me—he had [...]
Walk for a Cure
Posted on November 22, 2011 by A&U in Noteworthy, Positively Literary
Emerging Voices: Poetry by Kathy Coman God’s tears became the healing mist that touched His children as they walked hand-in-hand quietly making a statement that echoed through the air to reach my ears as I watched from my apartment window. Black, White men, women, young, old loving and supporting a cure to an epidemic meant [...]
Outside Marshall, Texas
Posted on November 4, 2011 by A&U in Noteworthy, Positively Literary
Poetry by Raymond Luczak for Michael Shannon Todd 1967–2011 The field that you loved was unkempt. You and I walked it daily together, our dogs chasing each other in mad joy. Your dog was black and rangy. My dog was white and smaller. Braiding together, they kept an eye on us as we talked in [...]
