FOUR FEATHERS PRESS ONLINE EDITION: POINT UP Send up to three poems on the subject of or at least mentioning the words point and/or up, totaling up to 150 lines in length, in the body of an email message or attached in a Word file to donkingfishercampbell@gmail.com by 11:59 PM PST on April 18th. No PDF's please. Color artwork is also desired. Please send in JPG form. No late submissions accepted. Poets and artists published in Four Feathers Press Online Edition: Point Up will be published online and invited to read at the Saturday Afternoon Poetry Zoom meeting on Saturday, April 19th between 3 and 5 pm PST.

Thursday, April 17, 2025

Joan McNerney

while we waited


hearing daybreak begin in

alphabet chaos

forgetting ocean trenches are

longer than mountains.

our cores hard like moons

listening to rhythm of

dead waters


the electric generation

watching clocks

push forward on soiled walls

reaching up and across

from each other we are

dressed in sweat

and polyester.


weary with longing to pop

out of our skins.

our anger burns  

eyes of eagles.

this configuration of rage.

Aquila

fire flying

we realize not a thing is

w I d e r

than the sky




broken dream


into dream of gray

imprisoned within gray stone


away from fragrant red roses

far from soft green grass


behind gray walls unable

to breathe in air like cement.


can you remember smooth

oceans or recall falling stars?


imprisoned for too long.

walls begin to crack open 


stones knocked over steel bars

crushed walls blasted into bits.


now you can breath no longer

enclosed finding this world


this world is up just in front

of you pulsating alive free


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