Poetry

"...it hoped to cajole a companion and be cosy a bit..."

"...I want all of us to pray To keep everyone hale and hearty..."

"...the only Cleveland poet who gets what it means to be a word-man...."

"...We can count the missteps of time..."

"...We walk together in Complete oblivion...

"Everything could have been different..."

"...a sense of freedom danced..."

"...They've won the war against the apparatus of assimilation..."

"...the elk rest with tucked legs beneath their deep chests..."

"...my way of harboring you within my heart..."

"Pogo the clown took to painting on death row..."

"...White clouds are forming and reforming above the river and the distant town..."

"...Today the world belongs to my son..."

"...Divinity willy-nilly has vested on them..."

"...Just another thing to repair with whiskey..."

"...It was once my favorite...."

"...The so called city of gold..."

"Bu helps chaps manage their chronic illnesses..."

"...I know a pair of each was there when start was pressed..."

Richard D. Houff was the former editor of Heeltap Magazine and Pariah Press Books, from 1986 until 2010.

Catherine Arra is the author of "Deer Love," "Her Landscape, Poems Based on the Life of Mileva Maric Einstein," "(Women in Parentheses)," "Writing in the Ether," and three chapbooks. Arra is a native of the Hudson Valley in upstate New York, where she teaches part-time and facilitates local writing groups.

"...I rid myself of the noise that clutters the brain..."

"...this rabbit hole world..."

"...Rolling rivers disappear and Turn into infertile deserts..."

"...What's wrong will never now be right..."

"...Words can reach a fever pitch in a brain!..."

"...It isn't as if they weren't warned..."

"...beaten once, For getting my family Two buckets of water...

"we cosmonauts are on sacred ground..."

"...Reconnecting rhythms In living and dead..."