Index of Poets
- Austin Alexis
- Collin Barber
- Yota Daniil
- Gil Fagiani
- Donna Gagnon
- Rachel Green
- Lois Marie Harrod
- Ruth Holzer
- Hank Kalet
- Steadman Kondor
- John Lambremont, Sr.
- Gill McEvoy
- Karen Neuberg
- Joan Page-Durante
- Mandy Pannett
- John Joseph Petrolino III
- Doug Pugh
- Christine Redman-Waldeyer
- David Romanda
- Nancy Scott
- Ivan Sun
- Levi Wagenmaker
- Lonnard Dean Watkins
- Mark Arvid White
- Wolfiewolfgang
Mandy Pannett
Circles
Are they concentric, is that
what they're called, those pools
of slow rain, those circles that widen, rush out
to disperse in puddles or lakes or in
a low pond where trees are as skinny
as cities of pylons stripped
and bare-thin?
Now it's remembrance with nobody left
to talk about trenches, the gas and the choke.
Yet petals still fall on the warrior's tomb -
he, the un-named and less
than a skeleton, lies beneath
poppies and bells.
Coffins of soldiers unwieldy in planes
ache in their flags which droop like fledglings
lost on a different terrain.
Bio
Mandy Pannett teaches creative writing and is the author of three poetry collections - 'Bee Purple' and 'Frost Hollow' from Oversteps Books and the recently published 'Allotments in the Orbital' from Searle Publishing. She is currently working on a long sequence of poems in the sonnet form.