Because I thought it was raining, I leaned back
into a deeper part of myself. Womb-like, safe.
The house was sturdy, would survive high winds,
though none were on the radar. Why did I think
it was raining? It ...
At the End of Each Sentence by Jeff Hardin
LAR Online, Poetry
Saw my brother in a wolf, in wildflowers
climate change, bobcats, javelina, and praying
mantis, lilac scent, laughter. Saw him howling
himself back onto the sidewalk of his life
before he lay his body in front of a ...
Missing by Mary Morris
LAR Online, Poetry
Some wise creature
once said that a child doubles her father’s vision,
so the snakeskin will be accounted for, filmy and useless,
and the sky will glow “like a sea built of fire,”
and the birds will never ...
Call It a Day by David Roderick
LAR Online, Poetry, Uncategorized
The Gold of Naples
Things kept reminding me of other things.
The old ladies in the street were my aunts.
A counterman at Caffè Mexico
was Totò in a soda fountain hat.
The rum babas were trumpet mutes.
My hanging ...
Three Poems by Erin O’Luanaigh
LAR Online, Poetry
..........I took you nowhere,
still shellshocked from the carpet bombing
..........at the end of first love,
still in awe of how quick
the turn from roses to reproach,
..........the hollowing out.
For third ...
Second Love by Ross White
LAR Online, Poetry
My Poems Keep Ending in Stars
Which means I can’t stop thinking
about the dying
passage of time. Which means I experience
flashing sensations, as from a blow
to the head. Sudden white spot
on the ...
Two Poems by Anne Barngrover
LAR Online, Poetry
Winner of the 2018 Los Angeles Review Literary Awards, in the category of Poetry.
Final Judge: Douglas Manuel
after Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib
The most quoted / Bible verse / told to you is / ...
In Defense of Genius by kwabena foli
Award Winners, LAR Online, Poetry
[First, there was the wandering episode,]
First, there was the wandering episode,
then the night I found our steak knives
in the fireplace, and then a secret code
my wife sensed in the electric beehives
of ...
Two Poems by Chris Hayes
LAR Online, Poetry
.....................................................in memoriam: Randy Pugh (1946-2017)
You thought I would need you to speak for me.
........I do not. Here I am again,
this time as the perennial question: ...
my own Eulogy by Robert Henriques
LAR Online, Poetry
