Last Meal by Ellen Peckham
As a child, reading of “…the convict’s last meal…”
I devised — I thought — menu impossible:
late season’s fruits, corn…
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Latté Archives
Poetry
November 2009 Issue
Permanent Stains by Eileen Malone
She puts out bowl of anchovies
hunk of salami, round of cheese
a loaf of sour-dough bread
June 2009 Issue
Offerings by Laurel Bastian
Because it’s instinct
to bring a small gift
when you visit
I want to leave oranges for the chimpanzees
in the zoo’s primate house
What Frommer’s Left Out by Laurel Bastian
Winner 2009 Food Verse Contest.
The Ristorante di Memoria
has a zealot for a chef….
March 2009 Issue
On the Set by JoAnne Preiser
Second Prize 2008 Latte Poetry Awards
They’re making a movie
at the old state mental institution;
they’re making it look
like it’s 1954[...]
3 Fascicles by Suzanne Heyd
First Prize 2008 Latte Poetry Awards
Curls drench & I can but wonder is she drowning & is there any once
upon a time.
The river’s looking glass glints ruthlessly northward & there’s tensile strength to the locks.
Postpone your departure love, this may be a miracle in the offing.
November 2008 Issue
Mistletoe by Starkey Flythe
I see it against sky, winter
cloroxing the light as I aim
the rifle, each clump, parasite [...]
A Good Idea at the Time by Brooke Pacy
it must have seemed like a good idea at the time:
to wriggle up from moon-swung deeps, from slime
climb onto rock, grow legs–six? four? [...]
Night School, North Hill, Akron, August 1966 by Kimberly Willardson
She made us go to bed while it was still light out, when there was life yet
in the wide street below our pent-up apartment and we could hear Mr. and Mrs.
Soleni argue about money as they sponge-washed their new Pontiac [...]
Untitled by Emily Sorg
(Note: It’s not about the fat.)
Sometimes,
I have found,
it is easiest to choose
nothing at all [...]
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