GOLEM by Leslie Philibert
GOLEMBy Leslie Philibert Lemons for Klarafor Klara Grünzweig 1957-2016 drops of river or ice patches;all of this without your noticebut tough and half eternalthe lemon tree growscool and silent;this makes you remain. Golem unholy earth, dark...
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...
CONTUSIONS – By Gary Beck
CONTUSIONSBy Gary Beck
Hidden Treasure
We move through city streetsintent on arrivalat destinations,immune to the beautyaround us;elegant willow,sweet Finch song,the fall of lighton an old building,the...
DOWNPOUR – By Bruce McRae
DOWNPOURBy Bruce McRae
Downpour
A heavy rain falling over Lithium Island,the roads flooded with tears of the disenfranchised,the quarry a lake of grief and woes,the tavern’s...
INNOCENCE – By Shayna Boisvert
INNOCENCEBy Shayna Boisvert ParthenonEven within my youth, I sensed something...I recall when it came to meTucked softly into bedHow irresistibly comforting it felt To be tucked within the sheetsI nnocentSwiftly this would end...I no...
MORE by Chris Fields
MOREBy Christopher Fields More Why seek anything morethan a life that slips frictionlessly by?I want more. I want a life that lashes;I want a life that grinds and scrapes,that prunes away weak piecesexposing lurid...
MIRROR – By Paul Bamberger
MIRRORBy Paul Bamberger
THE KISS
five decades she waitsthe stirring of a small legend a scream the length of a lifegone unheard but with his death near for fear...
AMICUS CURIAE IN IGNE by William Pruitt
Amicus Curiae in Igne
Amicus curiae: an individual or organization who is not a party to a legal case, but who is permitted to assist a court...
ELEANOR’S POEMS by Nardine Sanderson
Poem one: (Decorum)How bittersweet is sleep, The pillage of the end, where death evades the breath of life, and silence is a friend, for what becomes of us and love, does it...
EXPAT by Joe Albanese
Trading Post at the Edge of Known
Empty more mistaken pearlto curl fate
and find oneself
somewhere withno starsand no fear,no knots andno...
