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FOR MARJORIE AT SEVENTY-NINE — Poetry by Joe Pacheco
FOR MARJORIE AT SEVENTY-NINE (Inspired by Janis Ian) No truth to learn at seventy-nine Except that living on is fine. So many friends now [...]Winter Solstice 2003 — Poetry by Joe Pacheco
Winter Solstice 2003 (Year of my Quintuple Bypass) I thought at first The cataracts had come back --- the sun glinting cold and [...]In This House — Poetry by Gary McLouth
IN THIS HOUSE Prone on the sagging divan I see the breeze flirt with the curtains Through the open window Bolts of sun shoot into the [...]Eclipse — Poetry by Lorraine Walker Williams
"Eclipse" is a villanelle which appears in my weekly poetry column, "Poetry Place" at SantivaChronicle.com Eclipse Beyond my window blooms the [...]Orlando — Poetry by Lorraine Walker Williams
"Orlando" has been published in the 2018 Winter issue of Pen Woman magazine, a national publication of the oldest literary organization for women [...]Jim Gustafson — Waffles
Waffles “You should eat a waffle! You can't be sad if you eat a waffle!” ― Lauren Myracle What the Three Wise Men thought was a guiding star [...]Poem by Joe Pacheco
A Nuyorican Child’s Christmas In Vieques (My First Tropical Christmas) “No hableh ingléh en Viequeh,” (Do not speak English in Vieques) I [...]Chistmas Poem by Joe Pacheco
The Night Before Christmas on Sanibel Isle Twas the night before Christmas on Sanibel Isle, Not a gator was stirring, not our one [...]Patricia B. Janda — Eleven Days in Murdo
It was time to go back home. Following rainbows to the once familiar towns of Kankakee and Bradley, Illinois wasn’t the same. The old days [...]