Poetry - Year III - Number 11 - January 2018

2nd FLATTEST STATEBy Noah Slowik Rabble-rousers Night traffic performing cautious deeds;good people awaited sacred sinswhile diligent ones are sound asleep,unnecessary suffering begins. Shadow-wanderers seeking starlightcould never resist earthly desires;undeterred by countless warning signs,liable for action that transpires. Travelers...

JAMES AND THE GODFLESHBy Robert Beveridge James and the Godflesh He bit into the truffle, feltthe hot coppery gushbetween his teeth. Only for a momentdid he pause to considerthe usual solidity of truffles,the absence, most times,of...

THREE POEMSBy Tamara Williams  *** Pain, there are many women who carries your labor.Here are their stories.Cheers to the woman in Black with no strings attached.Your soreness goes where ever you do.You lose yourself in everybody...

CONSIDERED OVERBy Victoria Randall PSYCHO AND SOMATIC red artillery aims to inflame injurywhite walls raise to slay diseasestoo diffuse to destroyan air light feeling firstthat later weighs all the water downburdening one pound per beadof morbid...

AT THE BREWERY DOWNTOWNBy Hannah Kludy  Martyr has six definitions on Dictionary.comFire never looked so sinister to me, a moth in North America. We speak of martyrs as though they are brave for dying when...

WHEN I DREAM WELLBy David Matthews When I Dream Well Her head held as if she were posingnow for Renoir, yesterday Rodin,her face I knowfrom when I dream wellchance encounters on grand boulevardswhere peacocks admire themselvesin...

FROM HERE TO THEREBy Roger Singer   FROM HERE TO THEREHe wore a loud tie.  Checkeredshirt and black high top sneakers.Thoughts tumbled from him like leaves;fast tracks combined with solid sounds.He mumbles a prayer, though not...

GAZESBy Tomas Sanchez Hidalgo  Gazes A refrigerator slides down the street,moved by the wind.Its owner chases it."I'm a doctor!", "I'm a doctor!",she will have to say,this woman, some time later,in a courtroom.Mrs. Toolson is eight months...

SEXPECTATIONSBy Kathy Coman  Sexpectationsi can’t help but to thinkabout what tomorrow will bringafter i tasted the sweetness of your kissthat paralyzed my heart what have you done to me that has me longing for days that have...

GHOSTSBy Richard Dinges, Jr. Ghosts When young, I viewedthe outside worldin a black and whitebox, veiled by a thindusting of snow, voicesa static blend spokenin simple sentences,that winded outwhen I slept, mythoughts and memoriesechoed by ghoststhat...