EMPRESS by Chani Zwibel
EMPRESS
by Chani Zwibel
EMPRESSPlease send good newsand graceful configurations of repose.I want to recline on this silver maple settee and read this gilt-edged tome in peace.I keep dreaming of stone circles. I can’t keep count of all...
ROUGH RIDE by George Gad Economou
ROUGH RIDE
by George Gad Economou
Rough Ride
time to spend a few hours to watch Wrestlekingdom,and I wish you were here, to crack a Wild Turkey open,
crank some shit up. like events from too many years...
SCAVENGERS by Hank Kalet
SCAVENGERS
by Hank Kalet
Father Becomes the Son
He says he should justhave a heart attack. Done. And whenI reprimand, I feel the embersof past fires burningin my gut. At eighty,he’s earned his self-obsession, but pityis not...
FOCUS by Antonio Rios
FOCUS
by Antonio Rios
NOVEMBER 17, 2010
Clouds slowly rolled across the sky overhead.A heavyset man sold hotdogs at the street corner.Three young children played on a swing set.The leaves fell from the trees steadily,a soft snip when they...
WILLOW AND BARK by Sally Sandler
WILLOW AND BARK
by Sally Sandler
Somedays I Am That Cypress
The past has all blown east.The Monterey cypress felt it leavein the teeth of a Pacific sea squall.Ever since, the cypress has leaned easttoward the...
REMEMBERING CAMUS by Reed Venrick
REMEMBERING CAMUS
by Reed Venrick
Circles of the Sea
The Eye was the first circle(Emerson)
Those last days of summer, buildinga sandman for the last time, beforeSeptember's school, soon to begin—when the child sees something,
she standing, leaping up...
CAPTIVE by David Williamson
Captive
Thursday’s trap door below hermemory swings and upclimbs the same captoralways that man, grey wool suitred carnationtaking her furniture, picturesSaturdays hostageagain she bumps into the emptyspaces between bare wallsof personal careTuesday teaspoons...
SUNDAY AFTERNOON by Stuart Rawlinson
SUNDAY AFTERNOON
by Stuart Rawlinson
Commutations
The morning commute begins on the hourAs nighttime and daylight adjoin in friction.Buses interrupt as I squint for my number;Balanced and hovering on the kerb’s edgeIn front of staring commuters like...
PUTTING YOU THROUGH NOW by Christopher Barnes
PUTTING YOU THROUGH NOW
by Christopher Barnes
“Putting You Through Now, Caller.” 1
“Thirkell confided she’d bargained, hobbled away,Fingers crushing that suitcase,Something taut in her eyes.”
“Guess she’s on the plane,An age-encrusted face glimmering in a window.”
“Putting You...
SIXTEEN OF ME by Lefcothea-Maria Golgaki
SIXTEEN OF ME
To Giorgos
by Lefcothea-Maria Golgaki
The Promise
The girl was told hapless creatures cannot marchFinite their choicesThe girl was told woebegone bodies can only trudgeRasping sound their voices
Should they adjust to a haphazard mannerCurtailed their...