28Jan 2023 Tony Gentry

Dear Sir:

Okay, I’ll go up in your Master of the Universe rocket if you’ll come with me on my Meals on Wheels run. You want me to see our little blue... Read More
editors note:

A reasonable request, as far as I can see. – mh clay

2Nov 2021 Tony Gentry

Mementos

We say “passed” as if they’d tossed a football. Some use “transitioned” so you imagine a Star Trek transporter beam. It doesn’t help. Lately, it seems not a month goes... Read More
editors note:

When the passed stay and stay. – mh clay

9Aug 2020 Tony Gentry

Paired Viruses

A virus can’t act alone. Needs your participation. Just a burr of contagion sucked in on the air you breathe, that finds a weak link, a chink in a cell,... Read More
editors note:

What was once so common, these days uncommon is. Non-sense. – mh clay

30Apr 2020 Tony Gentry

The Spring of Our Confinement

The neighbor’s cherry tree a mushroom cloud of pink. How lovely this spring In the suburbs! Awaken queasy at 3 all our homes drifting boats on a sea of greening... Read More
editors note:

Ahoy, Mateys! (If you’re still trying to add up the numbers from April, read another mad missive from Tony on his page, “April by the Numbers.” Check it out!)- mh clay

30Apr 2020 Tony Gentry

April By the Numbers

N-95 if you care to survive. The cruelest month, indeed. For Covid-19. Contagious 3 days before you’re sick and maybe 2 weeks after that. The model said 1-2 million dead.... Read More
31Oct 2019 Tony Gentry

IF IT SERVES

Feeling contrary that night at the observatory we looked down instead found a latch to a room where the projector and its timer played the ghosts that stalk our woods... Read More
editors note:

Scary or exculpatory? It was an image of the thing not the thing itself. Boo-lieve it! – mh clay

24Sep 2019 Tony Gentry

Blackberry Missive

July afternoon in Virginia our father skips lunch to stride the dry pasture in work brogues to that thicket where blackberries sprout like purple polka dots and wades into the... Read More
editors note:

Here’s to “that thing” however we express it. – mh clay

15Apr 2019 Tony Gentry

PROVERBS

We thought, I guess, that we could pretend it was all just a tv reality show on a station we didn’t get. Where they jack boys (and girls) up on... Read More
editors note:

And, you can lead a horse… Wait, where’s the water? (We welcome Tony to our crazy congress of Contributing Poets with this submission. Read more of his madness on his new page – check it out.) – mh clay

9Mar 2019 Tony Gentry

Forgetting

“They tell me I shot myself in the chin, shot somebody else, too, but I don’t think that’s right. What happened was I fell off a fruit wagon.” That’s Dr. Wagner. He’s a pharmacist, had his own small town pharmacy out in the Valley for years, seemed fine, until this... Read More
25Jan 2019 Tony Gentry

SUBVERSIVE SCRIBBLE: 2069

I’ve tried to imagine trees.Thin giants with boisterous headsmirrored in down-reaching rootsand filmy almost translucentsolar panels unfurled along their limbs. A protective layer called barksometimes scaly or it could be... Read More
editors note:

What’s concrete now, becomes concept later; when later is too late? That’s subversive! – mh clay