A DUAL PERSPECTIVE by Patrick Erickson
A DUAL PERSPECTIVEBy Patrick Erickson A DUAL PERSPECTIVEDoes the edge of gloryreally work?Are you skittish?Are you skirtingthe edgewalking the walktoeing the line?Does it glowlike the glowwormlike its doubleits wormholeits twinlike those lighting stripsthat...
AS MEN by Talon Florig
AS MENBy Talon Florig
As MenAs men we are taught that a woman’s walls are to be conquered, their gates to be crashed. We learn that only in the...
SUNRISE KID by Ross Jackson
SUNRISE KIDBy Ross Jackson
Sunrise kid
his line of sight between smooth creamvee of sugar gum’s double trunkwhiskers sprout radii of goldfrom puckered areola of sunpulls...
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STRANGERS ON A TRAIN by James K. Zimmerman
STRANGERS ON A TRAINBy James K. Zimmerman
Midflight
that old manbecause he can'tget his bag downfrom the overhead bin
because he can'tunzip it...
AND THE WIND by Kevin Gillam
AND THE WINDBy Kevin Gillam
and the wind
the wind blew through us. we were small thatday, there and not. sea was scuffed, frothed, whipped,
MY PANTRY by Rikki Santer
MY PANTRYBy Rikki Santer
My Pantry
Crowded with shelves it knows how to shelvecanisters of worry that pretend to be hermetic
and brave....
LUST by Stephanie Daich
LUSTBy Stephanie Daich
Where’s Daddy
“Where’s daddy,” his daughter cries through the night.“Where’s daddy,” his precious cries at first light.He had been there so often to...
OPEN UP by Roger Singer
OPEN UPBy Roger Singer
OPEN UP There was an unwillingnessof movement.A stretch like tree topsin a tempest.A few indistinguishable wordsslipped clumsily into the air.The visions were intangible;the onesyou think you...
NAVEL by Edward Lee
NAVELBy Edward Lee
MOURNING
The trees outside my windoware weeping leaves,not in sympathyto the pain in my heartat your sharp sudden absence,but simply becauseautumn has fallen.
A SONNET TO MY HUSBAND by Cassidy Manley
A SONNET TO MY HUSBANDBy Cassidy Manley
A Cancer Poem
He died on a September dayBut you could sayHe died all yearOr forty sixIt rises from...