Latté Archives

Poetry

January 2012 Issue

Edie Watches the Tsunami from her Bed at Life Care Rehabilitation Center in Las Vegas, March 2011 by Paige Riehl

First Prize, 2011 Literal Latte Poetry Award.
Through the window was the concrete parking lot. Cars
came and went as if the drivers couldn’t decide….

May 2011 Issue

Daylight Savings by Pamela Kenley-Meschino

This could be
my secret hour
when the loose
ends get gathered

Ophelia’s Dress by Pamela Kenley-Meschino

Just call me Shakespeare’s
girl. Caught between folios.
Pressed into parchment. Dropped…

Maria by Adam Chambers

First Prize, 2010 Literal Latte Poetry Award.
Much came into the clay that was not intended:
the round bottom and the quivering lip;
the hollowness of years…

Arched Angels by Adam Chambers

First Prize, 2010 Literal Latte Poetry Award.
The last thing that I wrote, the last
thing I will ever write
about mushrooms…

Dance of the Cakes by Terry Alan Kirts

The cakes dance and they dance and dance
triple-tiered ballerinas pirouette down aisles of cream
a pink cheek turns a tango’s luscious corner…

Bon Appetit by Carol Milkuhn

Winner, 2010 Literal Latte Food Verse Contest.
We relax over lunch, sipping Courvoisier floats,
savoring lemon slices sugared in champagne,
while the waiter brings paté spiced with caper berries…

October 2010 Issue

Down on the Farm by Sally Yocom

It gets my goat to hear you lie.
We’ve hidden no black sheep.
So hold your horses, cut the corn.
Don’t make another peep…

Igneous or “of fire” by Rosemary Royston

Winner, 2010 Literal Latte Food Verse Contest.
Magma undulates in the mantle, forming as the Earth’s plates collide.
      A man and woman collide
      in a café. He pays for the coffee…

Fritillary by W.F. Lantry

I half believe all wines exist at once
within this glass, I almost half believe
each can be tasted singly…