Just landed on my windowsill.
Thought about coming in...
Print This Post A Little Brown Bird
By Julia Klatt Singer, June 3, 2011Too Big for My Skin
By Desdamona, May 11, 2011
My momma never told a lie, she couldn’t when the truth was clear
Through stretch marks and crow’s feet, the truth is what she told me
Not through words, but through the curve of her hips
The gleam in her eyes . . . the memories on her lips
She is so beautiful, that her skin can’t even keep her concealed
She is so beautiful, that in her early days
she carried another life inside her, manifested the fire
Sending her existence higher...
Print This Post Cold Night
By Tim Nolan, March 25, 2011
My feet are cold—the car
is cold—the car sounds
like a bucket of bolts
Rolling down a hill—
it’s so cold that my breath
falls like ice from the roof...
Print This Post Early Spring
By Diane Wilson, March 13, 2011
Pale vision on an early day:
two gray wings gliding flat
balance on the body’s straight line.
A trill rises from the meadow....
Print This Post Tracks
By Tish Jones, March 6, 2011
Before I was born
There was movement
Paddles pushing pent up people through oceans of pain
That explains my fear of water
When I was born
There was movement still
Print This Post Saint Paul Poet Laureate Carol Connolly: Poem for the Second Inauguration of Mayor Chris Coleman on January 4, 2010
By Saint Paul Poet Laureate Carol Connolly, February 27, 2011
We stand on the edge of a New Year, full,
it is, of endless possibilities. Somehow, we
climbed the steep hills of the year just past,
none of it easy, our seven hills dotted
with lights steady in the dark of night, hills
alive now with the beauty of a new snow that
stopped traffic everywhere.
Print This Post Old Saint Paul
By W. A. Alexander, February 9, 2011
Old Saint Paul, up and down your ripped up sidestreets,
kids roam, hands deep in pockets, snapping ice with each step.
Their mothers poke out of houses,
“Time to come inside,” they say,
waiting to hang blankets off shoulders
and brush the child’s hair from his face.
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