PABLO PICASSO by Richard Weaver
Walker Percy She was always fun. No one knew her otherwise. At least those of us
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CALM by Elana Wolff
CALMby Elana Wolff Calm,not so long ago / the river ambling through the valley /easy in the aptitude of being in the blue beside the fireweedand pocket gophers stomping on the vandal grass...
NOT A PRAYER by Diana Anhalt
NOT A PRAYERby Diana Anhalt
For Ethel Figueroa, the Librarian, My Heroine,
who lets me hide in the library— closed for recess—when girls in patent leather,...
COME TO ME AND LET ME HOLD YOU by Olivia Du Pont
COME TO ME AND LET ME HOLD YOUby Olivia Du Pont
Come to me and let me hold youIn the dead of night where voices are hushedBreathe life into...
DRIP by Roger Singer
DRIPby Roger Singer
DRIP A passive silver moondripped its lightthrough lace curtainsinto my room the faucetin the bathroomdrippedwith preciseregularity both dripping worldsinvoking theirpresence on me there is no wisdomgainedbeing in the middle listening and...
ASK A CHILD, ASK A BUTTERFLY by Megha Sood
ASK A CHILD, ASK A BUTTERFLYby Megha Sood
Like an open scarred river
This cystic undulating pain speaks for itselfborn out of the muted death, it...
NIGHT HYMN by R. Nikolas Macioci
NIGHT HYMNby R. Nikolas Macioci NIGHT HYMNA prostitute saunters back and forthunder a streetlight, takes permissionfrom the night to be there. She poses,walks a few steps, poses again. Sheis a beginner, barely able...
OUR OWN by George Payne
OUR OWNby George Payne
Our Own
The status quo is killing our soul.Life is not about paying the mortgage.
It is not okay...
FINGER BY FINGER by Ashley Green
FINGER BY FINGERby Ashley Green
Phantom I
She knew something I didn’t,pale with untold prophecyand horror.You’ll stop loving me, she saidand her dilated gazeswam in...
ANNIVERSARY by Cathryn Essinger
ANNIVERSARYby Cathryn Essinger
Anniversary
The Harvest Moon rising frombehind the strip mall appears tetheredto the horizon, but soon it will clearthe radio tower on the far...
