REDTOP, MO by Robert Eastwood
REDTOP, MO.by Robert Eastwood Concord Airport, CA. She sits, restored, on tarmac,blunt-nose-twin-barrels erect––a squat, ponderous bird in California sun. Old men, the stooped gray,waver into line, peer up into her bay.Aboard, they balance & crouch.They...
TONIGHT by John Horvath
TONIGHTby John Horvath TONIGHT I am yours ‘til earth crumblestoo soon, too soon it crumblesdogs howling along the streetsbitches marking their discontenttoo soon it crumbles, too soonbe mine ‘til moonfall and daybreak WORRY ABOUT A...
SONG CHANGES by Emily Brummett
SONG CHANGESby Emily Brummett They would go to the barevery week after work,to “Karaoke Thursday”.Together.After graduating,she moved in with him:each drowning in eight yearsof student loans,ready to start their lives.She knew he started...
POLITICAL by Peter Leight
POLITICALby Peter Leight
PoliticalToday I got up in the morning and started promising everything I could think of,together with some things I’ve never even thought of,it makes me feel political,I’m...
GNOMON AND GLASS by Robert René Galván
GNOMON AND GLASSby Robert René Galván
Gnomon and Glass *
Time’s wing casts a shadowon the spun world;
The pendulous moonbeats the shore...
ILLUSION by Don Thompson
ILLUSIONby Don Thompson WaningThe crescent moon flat on its backBleeds out, low in the WestWith no stars nearby—witnessesWho didn’t want to get involved. IllusionNo wind, but sparrows like leavesScatter as if blown away,Undoing a...
FLOWERS SCENES FOR THE PRRIE-DIEU by Anna Evas
FLOWERS SCENES FOR THE PRIE-DIEUBy Anna Evas
1 Wisteria
How is it, being real,you evoke the unreal?In Tuam,
your aerial lavenderssuggest a soiree...
ACROSS MY BROW by Thad Elmore
ACROSS MY BROW
by Thad Elmore
Beyond the fence
I keep a garden out back just beyond the fenceIf you stand on a...