Category Archives: poetry

A reading of What the Breeze Brings

Posted on September 20, 2020 by stevieslaw

Here is a link to a video of me reading my poem, What the Breeze brings, featured on Panoply this week. It’s a gentle one. Enjoy. http://www.panoplyzine.com/

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A gentle poem just published on Panoply

Posted on September 5, 2020 by stevieslaw

What the Breeze Brings This is the perfect spot for daydreaming— just the proper combination of light and breeze and easy chair. I often take refuge here— with a book for a prop, wistful and open. Once, in Kyoto along … Continue reading →

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New poem on Pure Slush

Posted on August 12, 2020 by stevieslaw

In the anthology: The Tyranny of Bacon. This poem was written with my local deli in mind—up on Hegeman and Amboy, I believe. It was the first place I had lunch out with my friends in Elementary School. A Kosher … Continue reading →

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Hall of Fame

Posted on July 23, 2020 by stevieslaw

My poem, Hall of Fame, is up on Silver Birch Press today as part of their Landmark Series. Here is the poem: Hall of Fame We were not a wayfaring family. My dad drove a taxi nights while mom worked … Continue reading →

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RavensPerch Second Poem

Posted on July 17, 2020 by stevieslaw

Aeolian When I was a young man I’d take to the shore— counting on the salt-slap of wind off the North Atlantic and the emptiness of that unearthly horizon to rouse me from a melancholy that held me bone deep. … Continue reading →

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Sonder

Posted on July 16, 2020 by stevieslaw

I’ve two poems published today by the RavenPerch. Here is the first Sonder Dad would never let on how he got his nickname. Even mom, who used Sonny for all but scolds, wasn’t telling and you’d have more luck convincing … Continue reading →

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Poem on Burningword Literary Journal

Posted on July 5, 2020 by stevieslaw

  Quotidian For fifty years, we lived at the bend in Spring Creek where the stream turns back on itself, in a shingled Cape Cod too small for the family and dreadfully cold.   The creek’s ceaseless song captained our … Continue reading →

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Hi Ho Silver Away

Posted on June 18, 2020 by stevieslaw

Just up on Silver Birch as part of their wearing a mask series. Check the site for a picture of me in a black mask—photoshopped by Karen Deutsch The Lone Ranger by Steven Deutsch For his tenth birthday, my brother … Continue reading →

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Second Poem—Urban Legend

Posted on June 9, 2020 by stevieslaw

Here is the second poem published yesterday by Anti-heroin Chic. Urban Legend Eddie told everyone Benny lived in a fourth-floor walk up on Watkins Avenue, in one of those crummy tenements that only had heat in the summer— but he … Continue reading →

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New Poems

Posted on June 8, 2020 by stevieslaw

I had two poems published today by Anti-Heroin Chic. Here is the first: Captain Jack I almost passed him by– so folded into himself he looked more turtle than seven year old boy. I had wandered over cautiously– fascinated by … Continue reading →

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