Tag: Prairie Schooner

  • “Trees Walking” and other poems by Joan Mazza

    Blue Moon So bright tonight, woods glow, as if some rare magic is near, orchestra building to a swell, crescendo followed by abrupt silence, pierced by an animal’s anguished squeal, sound that sends my heart thumping though my dog doesn’t bark. Imagination with a dash of desperation for a happening, some quickening. Stultifying summer heat,…

  • “After a deadly aerial engagement, a cup of tea” by Shadab Zeest Hashmi

    “After a deadly aerial engagement, a cup of tea” by Shadab Zeest Hashmi

    Past the news of war, you sleep in a litter of cacophony knowing the dead will forever bind their miasma to your hair knot their shrouds to every hook in the house, hem the sound of sirens to your head Between tonight’s brocade sky, inked textile of tomorrow, and tomorrow, there will be an hour…