Featured Poetry
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...
GREEN IN THE TIME OF VIRUS
A poetic offering from our Spring 2021 issue, by Gunilla Norris
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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...
Pear Blossom and Cherry Blossom after Mandelstam by Susan Kelly-DeWitt
Featured in Vol.4 Issue 1 | The Spring 2015 Edition Photo by Ryan Upp, Feature Photographer of the Issue Pear Blossom and Cherry Blossom after Mandelstam by Susan Kelly-DeWitt Pear blossom and cherry blossom argue with me. Their wisdom is ephemeral but they...
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 Old Lesson Again (and Again) by Reggie Marra
Appeared in Volume 3 Issue 3 Reggie Marra has two poems featured in this issue. Header Image: © Jar (Away) | Flickr And then one day if you're lucky or unlucky, or you recognize a moment of grace (or grace recognizes you) you wake up to find what you thought...
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...