‘Topics Over Time’ and Other Poems by Russel Winick The Society January 3, 2025 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 16 Comments . Topics Over Time At 10 boys talk about the games in which they’ve played. At 14 they discuss the girls and “progress” made. At 16 there’s the homework everybody’s got, At 18 work or college and...
‘Kill or Cure?’ and Other Healthcare Poetry by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society January 3, 2025 Poetry, Satire 31 Comments . Kill or Cure? “The art of medicine consists of amusing the patientwhile nature cures the disease.” ---Voltaire . Possible Side Effects: May cause lacerations to lobes of the brain__Or clusters of...
‘Enduring Sight’ and Other Poetry by Mike Ruskovich The Society January 2, 2025 Culture, Poetry, Villanelle 3 Comments . Enduring Sight Our blindest heroes walk among us, here, where legendary blindness gives us sight. King Oedipus still lives, and so does Lear in texts that draw their distant fates too near by pulling us...
‘Americans in Florence’ and Other Poems by Mary Jane Myers The Society January 2, 2025 Blank Verse, Culture, Poetry, Satire 19 Comments . Americans in Florence Ooo David! Whoa, you’re well-hung! But why a foreskin, underslung? Your left hand, do you hold a sling or dead Goliath's severed thing? Stop giggling, girls, show some respect. You...
‘Oh, the Days’: A Poem on Motherhood, by Gigi Ryan The Society January 1, 2025 Beauty, Humor, Poetry 16 Comments . Oh, the Days Oh, the days of poop and vomit! My best dress had drool upon it While I walked my teething child Up and down the hall for miles. Oh, the days of poop and vomit! When the baby chose to not...
Two Meditations in Verse by T.M. Moore The Society January 1, 2025 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 9 Comments . Meditation 4 "Now our Lord bestowed great gifts through small means..." ---Homily on Our Lord (11) "Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God." ---1 Corinthians...
