This collection of short poems were written by students in an American Literature course.  They are unique works representing the various modes and evoking the spirit of important movements iwithin American Literature.  Their poems are recorded over Badman tracks.

Jess

Ella Part II

Ella Part I

Chloe

Contemplating My Daughter’s Immortality


I am not full throttle, bird house no birds, 
trees give the illusion of nature
I am hole in the table no umbrella, 
the conundrum of time
I don’t want, ever, her to go
Everywhere at once,
forever be, pink cosmos, 
white stacked vine off the 23
a geographic sense recurs for me
I return to my emotional home:
farmland. I instruct my child,
pick only the reddest berries,
bees won’t sting if pollinating,
walk with me, down fine aisles of earth
lift me, she says,
take me to the swings.

Yanflower