After Wal-mart took
Businesses charms, their
Money, reputation
And sidewalk traffic,
The town plotted a return, a certain
Flavor bloomed of old-time
Shops, antiques,
A quiet confidence
Returned, not like other
Towns that vanished,
The sucking sound of
Money deposited in the huge
Monolith box where
Cheap goods meant
Small business failure
For most towns
On the plains.
David Hightower’s lyrically expansive meditation on the whims of fate and the unpredictability of the human condition fill the pages of THE HANGING MAN DREAMS with thrilling music and mesmerizing imagery. Hightower’s richly infused voice echoes the e
This book represents a thirty-day period of my poetry journal. Each poem addresses
the dominant thoughts occupying my mind during the early morning hours of a given
day.
From First Love to its destructive end and on to new beginnings, Mary Angela Nangini's poems explore the birth and death of a relationship. The powerful poems are presented in two parts with an introduction to her next book My Ontario Beautiful. (Th