Archive for Prose Poem

1. WHAT IT WAS LIKE • by Pauline Mason 9 Comments

   Then,
   I don’t remember having looked up at the sky much.  The memory is grey
   and rain filled, the fresh-heavy-quick, the sticky-damp-thick.
   It had to have been blue sometimes. The summers when we ate lunch in
   the seedless park. Skirts pulled up the knee, shirts opened, sandals
   cast aside. Lying on our backs, shut eyed. 
   The inside of your eyelids is [...]

   Literary, Nature, Other, Poems, Prose Poem
   
   

2. CRUEL DETAILS • a prose poem by Mark Charles 12 Comments

   It seemed to me that detail is governed with a prudish jurisdiction. If you’re not going to give me all of it, then I’ll have none of it. That’s the way I felt last spring. 
   What is the point of sharing your moment of clarity in the jungle or recounting your unbridled grief in the ocean? [...]

   Poems, Prose Poem