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By Mary Croy Breaking away The day began with a bike break down front wheel flat, clack, clack, clack as I passed the woman with the suitcase breaking away-that was … Continue Reading Breaking Away, Excel, and Solstice Yellow
By Amy Marques Amy Marques strives (with varying degrees of success) to say more using less words. She penned children’s books, barely read medical papers, and numerous letters before turning … Continue Reading Last Words
By Charlie Coleman with the picnic blankets and glass pipes. and the wreck when i saw the christopher street of that second week, where were the split lips, i thought, … Continue Reading DOWN ON THE AVENTINE
By Sandip Saha Humbug Humans In Australia I happened to visit a park no, it was not of human but of animals those who were extinct the replica of them … Continue Reading Humbug Humans, Gruesome Murders, Love Jihad, Wife Deserters, and Redistribution of Resources of The World
By Michael Estabrook Arthritis . . . when you’re young you haven’t time to think about being old . . . Grandson hears me groan for no apparent reason as … Continue Reading Arthritis, Salad, and Harvard Yard
By Rosemary Dunn Moeller Lunar Eclipse Watching Watching the snow-colored disk by its own light, I smiled back, waiting for the dimming as our earth’s penumbral shadow touched the widest … Continue Reading “Lunar Eclipse Watching”, “Strolling Downhill with Sisyphus”, and “Devouring Eggs on Half Moon Island, Antarctica”
By Michael Romary Kafka and The Buddha Meet So after Buddha read Kafka’s “The Silence of the Sirens” both sitting across from each other, said nothing for a long, long … Continue Reading “Kafka and The Buddha Meet” and “The Sailing”
By Madeline Legere An unexpected entrance now A little sun creeps into my devouring shadow But my heart twists upside-down When a smile turns into a scowl Light a little … Continue Reading Sunny Side
By S. T. Brant i. The Price of Wisdom What is the price of wisdom? A question we must always wonder. We could become wise, know the requirements for becoming … Continue Reading Lessons Fallen from the Tree of Paradise
By Juliana Chang Running into old love at a mutual friend’s wedding I wished him well and meant it, as much as I meant the avalanche of black tongue curses … Continue Reading “Running into old love at a mutual friend’s wedding” and “Aperture Blues”
By William Doreski A Cloud Mountain The dusk above Epping bulks with black cloud on blue-black sky. The blur of oncoming headlights ribbons in a tough endless glitter. We’re driving … Continue Reading “A Cloud Mountain”, “Of Such Music”, and “Color and Discolor”
By Art Moore for Susan Musgrave free verse for felons, his girlfriend, a handgun poet who answered hotel room doors barely dressed, bare breasted, shoulder holster, checkered walnut handle the … Continue Reading “for Susan Musgrave”, “Prom Dress”, “mimesis”, “pain threshold”, and “performance art”