WAKING UP by Jennifer Novotney
Waking Up
The sun peeks over the mountain’s ridgeas it does every morningunless there are clouds to hide behind.The bright orange, yellow familiar glowfills the house through drawn curtains.
PEGASUS by Januário Esteves
PegasusWhen spring comes and the winged wind brings itthe seeds of life and the boldness of the harbinger of creationthe wonderful sublimation of matrices that healin a cosmic dance provided in the...
SEXT by Daniel Edward Moore
Sext
Halfway to midnight& still the need for
words to break the dayin two, regardless
of how tired the tongueis from digging
MENACING HEAVEN by Mark J. Mitchell
MENACING HEAVEN
The sky has swallowed time’s poison. The sky
is pressing on empty, mis-colored streets
In this city,...
STORM CINEMATOGRAPHY by Emalise Rose
while we’re away
lights on the bayflicker twice, then recedeto the crawl space of Summerwinds resonatingthe deep chilled wisconsin
And winter will whipwhile we’re away
TIME by Megan Harrison
“time”The hands of the clock move too quicklyAs everything continues to change.Changing from the ideas of simpler timesAnd the constant dream to grow upGrow oldAnd do all that one couldn’t before.As my...
SUNDAY by Ashley Tippit
Science Class
Mud deluging between mytoes, up my legs, splatteringinto my hair, liftednot an inch above murky
water, tangled with cordgrass,reaching alongside...
SONNET by Pawel Markiewicz
Sonnet about the fallen moon and morning star
Heavenly sailorling spy out the wan light-sheen of star.
Baffling unearthly time: weird having just thieved by elves.
THAT LEAP by Charlie Madden
That Leap
Munching away in the sun,what could be more pleasant?Fellow Roos scattered as far as the eye can see -My lovely Mary there, mother of 2 and one...
NEW TIME by Wendell Hawken
Aretha in her Golden Casket Hawken
The angled photograph revealsthe crown of her head, face obscured,
ruffled red bodice, smooth red silk skirt,shapely café-au-lait calves and...