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By James Shelley Body Tap As part of my morning constitutionalI would like to drain my toxinsthe dirty crude oil staining my sheets But where to drill the … Continue Reading “Body Tap”, “Pneuma”, “Transcendence” and “Holy One”
By Ann E. Michael Clouds Like Late Renaissance Heavens Our yard was small yet I remember lyingon my back in grass and clover, listeningto bees, looking up at … Continue Reading “Clouds Like Late Renaissance Heavens”
By Ron Jevaltas April Fools And yet, despite thehour and the timbre of thedark, it lies softly How suddenly precious it’s been on the shoulders ofspring: a … Continue Reading “April Fools”
By Jo Angela Edwins Decline In late July summer begins to die. I grieve the light but not the heat, the heat anyway still in its prime. This is my … Continue Reading “Decline”, “Settled”, and “‘Don’t Get Old'”
By John Grey EVENSONG I cannot see herbut someone’s rustling the bed sheets,opening the dresser drawer. I’m in one roombut that doesn’t stopthe other rooms from happening. Her … Continue Reading “Evensong”, “The Human Rings”, “Making Flower Wine” and “An Afternoon at the Lake”
By Michael T. Young I Ask How long is it to the next season, the next doorstep, our arrival at the threshold of another embrace, the curtain of intimacies in … Continue Reading “I Ask”, “The Promise of Flight”, and “The Benefit of Common Words”
By Dominik Slusarczyk Speech You say something. They laugh at you. You decide to Stay silent for the rest of your wretched life. Your wife immediately objects but You ignore … Continue Reading “Speech”
By Casey Killingsworth Just a bad day So– You’re on your way to your daughter’s fresh from the phone call that she and her husband might be calling it quits, … Continue Reading “Just a bad day” and “A road blessing for my granddaughter’s (probably ex) boyfriend”
By Mark Bennion Foregoing Drama I’d like to think of act threewithout lions roaring on a rampart,without the grand chorus lineor the ax coming down on my back.I … Continue Reading “Foregoing Drama” and “Glimpse”
By John Marvin New Gas City That there is no time like the present has been noticed. Gas is in Dutch out of the blue … Continue Reading “New Gas City”, “Odd Jobs or The Eclectromagentic Spooktraum” and “Of the Essence”
By William Prindle This Kitchen Remains Quiet This winter wind winnows the fewleaves that cling to the gutter guards, Whispering loudly in the crowns thatthis planet is still … Continue Reading “This Kitchen Remains Quiet”, “Finding the Lost Boy Before Dark”, “A poem in which my grandfathers meet Lorca”, “Dispatches from the Levant” and “A Flat File Across a Mattock Blade”
By A. G. Coletta Tanka: Shalom swirling emptinesspierced by starlight touching methrough the darkness wideinto the sunlight of painhere I am, born for shalom Tanka: Koi bright … Continue Reading “Shalom”, “Koi” and “Puzzle Me”
By Mark Belair SHERRY Sher-er-ry!I lip-synched from the center of the linoleum rolled out in my buddy’s backyardfor a neighborhood show and dance, my Four Seasons costumemy Confirmation suit. … Continue Reading “Sherry”, “The Stray”, “Matinee”, “Schoolboys” and “Idle Fun”
By Connie Woodring Appetizers We sat at a table facing the busy city street. We ordered appetizers (clams casino) and engaged in casual conversation. What would we get for … Continue Reading “Appetizers”
By Sophia Lee Snow, An Emptied Platter. your wrist is flipped open–palm sunny side up, and i can’t help noticinghow the light bangles the skin with a tenebrosityresembling snowmelt … Continue Reading “Snow, An Emptied Platter.”
By C. S. Crowe Paradise I found Paradise at the bottom of a bottle—An angel drinking Coors Light in a trailer park. He pawned his flaming sword to pay … Continue Reading “Paradise”, “The Pines”, “Ode to Firewood”, “Lightning in a Bottle” and “A Town of Many Roads – King Street”