COMMONPLACE

COMMONPLACE

A poem by Amy Nawrocki, from the autumn 2021 issue When I am disorientatedand longingfor the company of resolve I find myself living among frondsnext to the rock named for emptiness every day imagining geraniumsthe orientating newnessof honeysuckle. Amy Nawrocki is...

The Bouquet of the Last Direction

The Bouquet of the Last Direction

by Frank LaRue Owen, from The School of Soft-Attention When the soul becomes unburdenedit’s like a new saddle on a fresh horse. Suddenly the trail feels right again,and the strong horizon line in front of you as you turnbecomes its own form of soothing medicine....

December 2018 Kenya, The Mara | A Poem

December 2018 Kenya, The Mara | A Poem

From our Spring 2019 Edition | Visit our store to treat yourself to the full issue in either print or digital format. | Browse the Store› by Heloise Jones Dedicated to Simon Metekai Masago and Jackson Kayionni Letiol The bleached bones of buffalo,wildebeest.Their...

The Laws of Gravity | A Poem by L.M. Browning

The Laws of Gravity | A Poem by L.M. Browning

From our Spring 2019 Edition | Visit our store to treat yourself to the full issue in either print or digital format. | Browse the Store›Expectations are sheer cliffs we cannot helpbut climb. The perfect, plumb ground too easy and expectedbears no liking for those...

Forest Bathing | A Poem by Frank LaRue Owen

Forest Bathing | A Poem by Frank LaRue Owen

Forest Bathing by Frank LaRue Owen Winner 2017 Homebound Publications Poetry Prize    There is a way of entering the forestwhen the breeze of the treesbecomes your guide when the cool gray-green daysand humid blue-green nightsbecome your own skin where the...

The Charity Houses of Cape Cod | A poem

The Charity Houses of Cape Cod | A poem

from the collection Reconnaissance by Amy Nawrocki This article is featured in the Autumn 2015 issue of The Wayfarer (Vol 4 Issue 2) Visit our bookstore to purchase an e-edition or print edition. Go to the Store»   This is what Thoreau called those rickety and...

Little Kinglet  | A Poem

Little Kinglet | A Poem

by Camille Thomasson This article is featured in the Autumn 2015 issue of The Wayfarer (Vol 4 Issue 2)   Visit our bookstore to purchase an e-edition or print edition. Go to the Store» The kinglet in the winter wood weighs as much as a plump cherry. When amorous,...

Ordinary Marvels | A Poem

Ordinary Marvels | A Poem

by Timothy Norton This article is featured in the Autumn 2015 issue of The Wayfarer (Vol 4 Issue 2) Visit our bookstore to purchase an e-edition or print edition. Go to the Store»   I wonder why people ask about the weather; Or if a landscape is beautiful. The...

Soft Fascination by Jeff DeBellis

Soft Fascination by Jeff DeBellis

  Featured in Vol.4 Issue 1 | The Spring 2015 Edition Soft Fascination by Jeff DeBellis I built a perfect teepee with dry juniper twigs filled its interior with bits of paper and lit it with a cardboard match. The flame steadily climbed unil the entire teepee was...

Dear Mary Oliver by Gloria Heffernan

Dear Mary Oliver by Gloria Heffernan

Featured in Vol.4 Issue 1 | The Spring 2015 Edition Dear Mary Oliver, by Gloria Heffernan Thank you for inviting me to eavesdrop on your conversations with the grasshopper; for allowing me to follow at a safe distance during your solitary walks through the fields just...

Diptych on New Mexico by Kael Moffat

Diptych on New Mexico by Kael Moffat

Featured in Vol.4 Issue 1 | The Spring 2015 Edition   Diptych on New Mexico by Kael Moffat 1. Along I-40, Outside Gallup Beside bones of coyotes bleached like saints, Beside blood dried on concrete like wine on lace, Beside tufts of fur strewn like abandoned...

String Theory by Gunilla Norris

String Theory by Gunilla Norris

Appeared in Volume 3 Issue 3 Gunilla Norris is the feature poet of the issue and has four poems featured in the edition. Photo ©  Stuart Madden   It is so bright today that the two fishermen—dark silhouettes— seem to be standing on water. Perhaps they are father...

Four Nesting Boxes by Diana Woodcock

Four Nesting Boxes by Diana Woodcock

Appeared in Volume 3 Issue 3 Diana Woodcock has two poems featured in this issue. Photo © Lee Coursey   surround the dune shack, each one claimed by a pair of tree swallows busy preening and mating, setting up housekeeping, sweeping insects from the air. Song...

The Old Man And The Heron by John Grey

The Old Man And The Heron by John Grey

Appeared in Volume 3 Issue 3 John Grey has two poems featured in this issue. Photo Left: © Jacquie Roecker | www. jacquieroecker.com   Heron at edge of pond, a spike of blue in green reeds as, in the distance, an old man peers through the telescope. His...

Apple Harvest by Kathleen M. Quinlan

Apple Harvest by Kathleen M. Quinlan

Appeared in Volume 3 Issue 3 Kathleen M. Quinlan has two poems featured in the edition.   Nine pairs of eyes—yours the wariest— narrow at our arrival, track us as we tumble out of the car into our grandfather’s arms. We cower, out-numbered against the locals,...

Only To Be Erased by Amy Nawrocki

Only To Be Erased by Amy Nawrocki

Appeared in Volume 3 Issue 3 Amy Nawrocki has two poems featured in this issue. Photo Left: © Russ Russimages Flickr   Because I am not thinking of the next moment, this one drapes itself, long and evident and words come to my mind only to be erased by others,...

The Housatonic at West Cornwall by David K. Leff

The Housatonic at West Cornwall by David K. Leff

Appeared in Volume 3 Issue 3 David K. Leff has one poems featured in the edition. Photo ©  Doug Kerr   There’s no tonic like the Housatonic. —Oliver Wendell Holmes Shadowed by green humped hills, anglers cast into riffles and pocket-water where trout linger among...

Compass  by C.M. Rivers

Compass by C.M. Rivers

Appeared in Vol 2 Issue 3 (Summer 2014) C.M. Rivers is the feature poet of this issue. Three poems total are featured in the edition. Header Image: © John Fowler   Compass by C.M. Rivers How do we become so fenced in, afraid, mean-spirited? Why not instead leave...

Sacrifices  by Nicolo Santilli

Sacrifices by Nicolo Santilli

Appeared in Vol 2 Issue 3 (Summer 2014) * Two poems by Nicolo Santilli appear in this issue. Header: © LadyDragonfly   Sacrifices by Nicolo Santilli a saint sees the sacrifices that lie under every paving stone and in every mouthful of food how a world of...

Stardust and Peace  by Monika John

Stardust and Peace by Monika John

Appeared in Vol 2 Issue 3 (Summer 2014) *Two other poems by Monkia John also appear in the issue. Header Photo: © Prayer Wheel Michael Bay   Stardust and Peace by Monika John My mind is joined to victim and violator, to conquerors’ greed and insights of Sufi...

The Altar Of Birds by Heloise Jones

The Altar Of Birds by Heloise Jones

Appeared in Vol 3 Issue 2 (Summer 2014) Header Image © Jamie K. Reaser     The Altar Of Birds by Heloise Jones I. I looked to the dawn sky over the bay, saw the coral sheets I knew colored the sand, the water, the homefronts. When I finally stood at the pink...