INVITATION by Gloria Monaghan
INVITATIONBy Gloria Monaghan
Invitation
The road is waiting for you to walkinto the open air
into the slightly grey day
THINGS IN A GAP by Eduardo Escalante
THINGS IN A GAPBy Eduardo Escalante
Again Google, Mo Gawdat lines on happinessLemons or magnet for us?Rational smells with an old story:What part of my glass would I drink?Would...
PURPLE DAWN by Edward Bonner
PURPLE DAWNBy Edward Bonner
FEW WILL HEAR HIS WORDS
What thou find in a poor man's walletAn amazing talentTo surviveHolding true to God's wordA secret for...
CONSIDERED OVER by Victoria Randall
CONSIDERED OVERBy Victoria Randall
PSYCHO AND SOMATIC
red artillery aims to inflame injurywhite walls raise to slay diseasestoo diffuse to destroyan air light feeling firstthat later...
RAPTURE OF FUNK by Lenny Lewis
THE RAPTURE OF FUNK
By Lenny Lewis
Two nights before Frediawas due backfrom elective castrationI carried her one-eyedblack dog down the stairs.Both of us soakedin his...
GHOSTS by Richard Dinges
GHOSTSBy Richard Dinges, Jr.
Ghosts
When young, I viewedthe outside worldin a black and whitebox, veiled by a thindusting of snow, voicesa static blend spokenin...
TO THAW by Annelise Mozzoni
TO THAWBy Annelise Mozzoni
Kenmore Electric Dryer
Room steeped in blue,her and I,folding cotton waves.
Standing in a swallow of light,she pulls sheets...
MAKING IMAGES by Martin Altman
MAKING IMAGESBy Martin Altman
Making Images
By the painter’s brush An image is born as picture before it’s born as speech, But in a cloud of pictures,The...
WALKING by Patrick Hurley
WALKING…selectionsBy Patrick Hurley
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letters and numbers convergethen dissolve into pure sound
suddenly visible in the pavementa repeated pattern of circles
