"The vivid imagery draws the reader into this exploit in this nicely woven poem with no loose threads-a fresh, original creation."

Editor’s Note: This very short poem creates a container for extremely large emotions at precisely the necessary moment.

Haiku by Carla Schwartz, Nalini Shetty, and Susan Lee Roberts

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Poetry by Carla Schwartz, Eclectica Magazine v29n3

Let me thank you for a life you didn’t know you granted how could you have known driving our small suburban road in your white Ford Falcon

Snow Keeper by Carla Schwartz All winter you study forecasts, hoping for snow. You joke that the hill you live on, your mountain, has different weather than the street below. A two-inch forecast be…

Editor’s Note: This narrative poem’s dramatic action almost distracts the reader from the embedded lines about the deer, except the two lives are inextricably entwined around a single, …

Song of the Nude Marble Statue my Young Father Poses With Don’t touch me, you bore me. I’m here for the hundreds— crooked on my elbow, to gaze at the willows, my scant drape, thigh-clasped, not hid…

Carla Schwartz Musing Weather One day poems fell from the sky—pages of them rained down, so soakedI couldn’t read the words. Suddenly a cold front turned the poemsto ice,then snow. spiraling starlings...

Mind of a Poet - Carla Schwartz