It’s another edition of poems I’ve read that I loved. And it’s National Poetry Month so it’s the perfect time to for poetry. Well, I think it’s always the perfect time for poetry… Enjoy!

And the bedsprings singing

and the Lord’s name taken

wholly and lusciously in vain.

~ from In the Thick of It by Matthew Murrey, published by Green Linden Press – this poem won the Erotic Poetry Contest and is available for purchase as a broadside.


It’s about buying time

& making do, he’ll say.

It’s about doing what it takes

to get home, & you see

he has been talking

about the war all along.

~ from We Were All Odysseus in Those Days by Amorak Huey


I want to ask him
how he can love a mother
land that chewed and spit
him out like broken teeth

~ from Dust by Sarah Kabamba


I heard that he said he was glad
his estranged wife had died from cervical 
cancer, that she had gotten 
what she deserved for leaving him.
Things can be idyllic and then ugly.

~ from My Dog Lifted His Leg by Barbara Costas-Biggs