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.

Friday, April 18, 2025

Peggy Castro


holding in my palms

a teardrop containing every tear I have ever cried 

laughter containing every laugh

always with me that silent scream from birth

my palms are old and wizened 

they will be 80 in a few weeks 

it is the weight of those palms

transforming my life into an echo

one I can trace from the Big Bang…

a most perfect wabi





my life for decades caught up in the indescribable lightness of being dancing with camellias in the rain yes always bound by the darkness but one step ahead now must face that truck hurling towards me…

Alone and in the dark


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