Conversion

Wild and silent asthe desert of an arcticlandscape, the one eventthat never happens the wayit is supposed to. George Cassidy Payne is a poet from Rochester, NY. His work has been included in such publications as the Hazmat Review, Moria Poetry Journal, Chronogram Journal, Ampersand Literary Review, The Angle at St. John Fisher College, and 3:16 Journal. George’s blogs, essays and letters […]

What We Need to Dream

sharing the same earthwe share the same water breathing the same airwe need the same soil we need birdsto feel and to loveso little separates us fromwhat we need to dream George Cassidy Payne is a poet from Rochester, NY. His work has been included in such publications as the Hazmat Review, Moria Poetry Journal, Chronogram Journal, Ampersand Literary Review, The Angle at St. John […]

Alice Walker

She watches the solar systemthe way Galileo didyearning for extinction&fresh as shallots just openedshe writes to change her taste in the world George Cassidy Payne is a poet from Rochester, NY. His work has been included in such publications as the Hazmat Review, Moria Poetry Journal, Chronogram Journal, Ampersand Literary Review, The Angle at St. John Fisher College, and 3:16 Journal. George’s blogs, essays and letters have appeared in USA Today, The Wall […]

A Mind Engaged

The world may not needmore poems but it certainlyneeds more parks where poemscan be written – the poem here withus, thirsty as the roots fed and a mind engaged again. George Cassidy Payne is a poet from Rochester, NY. His work has been included in such publications as the Hazmat Review, Moria Poetry Journal, Chronogram Journal, Ampersand Literary Review, The Angle at St. John Fisher College, and 3:16 Journal. George’s […]

The Earth Is An Ordinary Friend

the oughtness of an ant&the secret codes of Hawthorn treesThe way Socrates said yes to the hemlockshe was an ordinary friend. That feelingof being stuckin paradise George Cassidy Payne is a poet from Rochester, NY. His work has been included in such publications as the Hazmat Review, Moria Poetry Journal, Chronogram Journal, Ampersand Literary Review, The Angle at St. John Fisher College, and 3:16 Journal. George’s blogs, […]

Heart Mountain in Wyoming

is confronted by their unfamiliarfaces, mangledlaid bare in the verdant grasslike a falcon devours a field mousebloodon the rust-hued walls of a campfirethrowing sparks in your eyes, andthe numbers: 09650, 05653 Peering deeper intothe pagesuntil they can no longerbe read in English For the Japanese- Americans who lived through internment. George Cassidy Payne is a poet from Rochester, NY. […]