DREAM PATHS – By Denny E. Marshall
DREAM PATHSBy Denny E. Marshall Spiral LongingFreedomIn DNAIn all of usImmuneTo evolution Dream PathsI often wonder why dreams seem so realSome recalled most evaporate like frostMind has a failsafe what not to revealI often wonder why...
THE RIVER – By Anna Kapung
FEET ON UNSTABLE WATERSBy Anna Kapung THE RIVER The river is the same conceitedProceeds with its own eloquenceOpen in its clarity and influenceDark is its colour it has influenceIts licence to hold what it knowsIts prerogative...
BALD EAGLE – By Jean Berrett
BALD EAGLEBy Jean Berrett
BALD EAGLE
Yesterday driving home from Patuxent Wildlife Center,I thought I saw the eagle. I pulled over off the roadand leaned out lookingthrough binoculars.
Very high up against the clouds,There was a large bird,...
RISEN – By John L. Stanizzi
RISENBy John L. Stanizzi
RisenBe on such simple, cordial terms with those under you that when you are all together,it would be impossible to say which is the superior.-St. Vincent de Paul
Each log is consumes...
MY FATHER’S DOG TAGS – By Billy Malanga
MY FATHER’S DOG TAGSBy Billy Malanga
My Father’s Dog Tags
The name on my father’s brass dog tagsdoesn’t match his driver’s license.The gunfire caves filled with burning fleshand bloodshot south Pacific surfhad taken its toll. He...
VISITOR – By Sukrita Paul Kumar
MY FATHER’S DOG TAGSBy Billy Malanga
My Father’s Dog Tags
The name on my father’s brass dog tagsdoesn’t match his driver’s license.The gunfire caves filled with burning fleshand bloodshot south Pacific surfhad taken its toll. He...
MORAL ORAL – By Zach Trebino
MORAL ORALBy Zach Trebino
death’s mouth
one morning, we wake in a coiled embrace, dead.i don’t know how i even know this. after years inthat now-rotten mattress, our vertebrae have fusedand risen in a skeletal trunk....
PALAVRAS – By Pierre Sotér
PALAVRASBy Pierre Sotér
Palavrasto the memory of António Aleixo
P’ras palavras serem fundas,e da vida também parte,não precisam ser fecundas,nem sequer de muita arte.Há palavras vagabundas,e outras que são estandarte,há palavras tão rotundas,de paixão, amor que...
POETRY TRANSLATIONS – By Len Krisak
POETRY TRANSLATIONSBy Len Krisak
EUGENIO MONTALE:. . . BUT LET IT BE. THE BUZZ OF A CORNET
. . . but let it be. The buzz of a cornet Converses with the bees that swarm the oaks.Inside...
TABLE-SCARF – By Mary Jane White
TABLE-SCARFBy Mary Jane White
ENVOI
Having returned from beyond black bordersOver sundry riversI come to our final parting
& bring at last that kiss the departed are freely granted& call out wailing above your absence
Since separation forbids...