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PoetryA Posture of Sitting By David Anthony Sam
beside the moonstreaked pond, fireflies for eyes, wearing the humble wind as gown, or shroud, or veil, knowing the darker water where the cove is concealed beneath tree umbra− witness of moon…
PoetryTanka – A Long Path By David Anthony Sam
A path snakes over white sand reflecting high sun become a white glare− Gnarled black limbs interrupt me with the darkness of shadows.
PoetryLove in A Time of Rubble By G. Louis Heath
The press of shattered steel, glass, and other shiny modern Detritus fills him with pain unimaginable as his fingers grope For connection under the rubble. He cannot see. His heart flutters Wildly,…
PoetryDeer Here By Vanessa Sylvester
In the woods when the summer gives out a few leaves linger above the cyclone yellow dog, then, deer here. Above a ridge – an old stone foundation, and not even heard…
PoetryA Family Table By Steven Hale
Ivy growing out from cracks in the cinder blocks at the base of our house and down into the yard and around picnic table legs cut by my father when he still…
PoetryNocturnal By Hannah Kozich
Inside our miniature cottage deep evergreen forest white puffs swimming from crackling wood. His snore filled the abyss a charcoal blackened room. I stared out the fogged window awake as a saw-whet…
PoetryAlla Rossini By CJ Muchhala
At the age of thirty-seven, Rossini, he of the opera buffo Barber of Seville, retired to the kitchen, cannelloni alla Rossini being his most famous culinary work. Perhaps he thought he could…
PoetryDecember Now That It Has Told Its Story By Ken L. Jones
The last days of this year are like an old staircase That I don’t have to pay much attention to as it gets climbed And so I become overwhelmed by crisp air…
PoetryTheatricals By Michael S. Walker
There was Rumpelstiltskin Me playing the titular character You the miller’s daughter And every one of our parents’ friends was subjected After cards To that fairytale torture And Dr. Jekyll and Mr.…
PoetryMoment By Taylor Bain
Cars swoosh and rumble, Past this little office space, To unknown places.
PoetryBottled Beer By Jacob Mercer
Ninkasi and Enki know nothing of the joys I’ve imbibed Through their cure of the father’s wounds. That warm glow, Unmistaken in a crowd of public tavern-ry Or in my living room…
PoetryI Want More of You By Daniel Ari
I’d pulled out that conversational quaffle: would you rather play every instrument or speak every language fluently? It went around. The people you’d guess would answer first did so; then you said,…
PoetryI Decide to Attend the Services By Mike Nichols
The falsity. All of us instant saints the second our hearts stop. Like a reverse muffin mix, just remove life. Toss out tainted blueberries.
PoetryAmaranthine By Cynthia Sharp
When all of my beauty is gone and I’m an old hermit poet, last wisps of hair letting go to the wind, I’ll still be dreaming of the life we would have…
PoetryHenry By Lowell Jaeger
Not much , I say when my wife asks if I think about loved ones gone to their graves. She’s jolted with sorrow, she says, in a crowd when her grandmother’s eyes…
PoetryThe Honesty of Hands By Tommasina Domel
All the words in all the worlds can never confess more than my hands. Read my hands like a tome. Feel the terrain with your fingers like braille. See the constellations like…
HumorQuid Pro Quo By Bill DeArmond
She gave me a CD single and I sent her a CD album Then she offered me two singles And I sent her two albums. Today She visited my home and counted…
HumorSpeaking Truth to Power By Mike Coste
If I see you standing on an unstable chair with a noose around your neck, I may feel an obligation to let you know that you are standing on an unstable chair…
FictionBalance By Chanacee Ruth-Killgore
Owen squeezed through the open window, feet first, and carefully lowered himself onto the awaiting limb. He’d watched his daughter do this years ago when she was young and wild and obviously…