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...
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GREEN IN THE TIME OF VIRUS

A poetic offering from our Spring 2021 issue, by Gunilla Norris

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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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Compass by C.M. Rivers

Compass by C.M. Rivers

by | Jun 21, 2014

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

by | Jun 21, 2014

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

by | Jun 21, 2014

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

by | Jun 21, 2014

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...

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