Poetry Breakfast
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Beginning March 20th, 2016 Poetry Breakfast will once again serve a little poetic nourishment every morning. Start your day with our new expanded menu. Poems, of course, are our specialty. But we will also be serving a fuller menu that includes poetry related creative non-fiction such as letters to and from poets, essays on poetry, and anything else that might feed a poet and poetry..
Poetry Breakfast
6h ago
Café couple A poem by Joanne Maybury Café couple They sit, adjacent sides of the table, gazing silently through the plate glass, pondering the fish bowl of life. Perhaps they are in quiet agreement that today the coffee is bitter ..read more
Poetry Breakfast
1d ago
Friend Wanted A poem by Nancy L. Hausauer Friend Wanted Someone who’s walked a cliff-edge and knows to give thanks for breath, knows that to protect the vulnerable is a sacred charge; who seeks wild and god-touched places, writes words ..read more
Poetry Breakfast
4d ago
When Baking Angel Food Cake A poem by Lana Hechtman Ayers When Baking Angel Food Cake It is not necessary to be grieving but it can be helpful to whisk the egg whites to utter stiffness, apply muscle and might ..read more
Poetry Breakfast
4d ago
Medical Fall A poem by Tina Hacker Medical Fall When I tumbled off the exam table, my doc was frantic. She told me, You tucked and rolled like an athlete! I was stunned. Totally stunned. Never—ever—have I been compared or ..read more
Poetry Breakfast
4d ago
secret garden A poem by Brigid Cooley secret garden “No one wants to be a pretty thing all the time. But no one wants to be the weed.” – Ada Limon the neckline on my black bodysuit dips low, with ..read more
Poetry Breakfast
1w ago
Reflection A poem by Dennise Gackstetter Reflection Some days you can wakeinto a beautiful morning,all soft and glowing and pinkaround the edges. A morningthat invites you to rememberyour own beauty. But youcannot recognize it anywhere.All you can feel isthe raggedness ..read more
Poetry Breakfast
1w ago
Hourglass A poem by Hope Clayton Hourglass We have always tried to capture time water clock dripping liquid into a vessel sundial casting shadow onto stone hourglass spilling sand through a narrow neck Now Beverley unbinds the hands of time turns hourglass on ..read more
Poetry Breakfast
1w ago
Three Friends and Three Gifts on an August Evening A poem by Nancy L. Hausauer Three Friends and Three Gifts on an August Evening One gave me eggs– green and tan and brown, form perfect enough to live for, but ..read more
Poetry Breakfast
1w ago
Waxing Moon A poem by Bonita Lini Markowski Waxing Moon I try to hold the moon in my hands like Nonni held her rosary; try to pass hard moon rocks through my fingers like holy beads. But three years after ..read more
Poetry Breakfast
2w ago
Light A poem by Shaun R. Pankoski Light When I think of myself as strong, I think of hauling huge rocks in a wheelbarrow, or jugs of water in big blue containers. I think of being the smallest recruit on ..read more