MY FAVORITE NIECE by Patrick Mahoney
MY FAVORITE NIECEBy Patrick Mahoney
THE BASEMENT OR THE ATTIC
The line is long and never-endingAs it winds throughout the skyAcross the clouds that hide the sunAnd stars that never shineThe melting pot of human formsBlend...
SELF TALK by Emily Butler
SELF TALKBy Emily Butler
Self Talk
Looks like somebody forgot to take their Dylar this morning.
Did you wake up on the wrong side of the tracks?
Got a bad case of the un-days? The end times?
Don’t you...
WHEN YOU WERE BORN by Colin Dodds
WHEN YOU WERE BORNBy Colin Dodds Cardiopolis Floating through the worlddispensing permissionunknowinglyCranes raise houses, office boxesbivouacs for a war not yet agreed uponBuildings like the stock exchangeblossom in the snowAt midday in midtowntowers pose for their...
MY GRETEL by John O’Connor
MY GRETELby John O'Connor
My Gretel
My sister never called me Hanselbut she knew I would lead her to trouble.The hollyhocks looked at us mischievously
from the frost wall garden and we stole outin the twilight to...
LATE AT NIGHT by Daniel Senser
LATE AT NIGHTBy Daniel Senser
Late at Night
The clock is drunk and I’m too soberTo sit and listen to it unwind.Each tick and tock of its time pours overLike a wino spilling over the sides.The...
ON VIEWING THE CORPSE OF MY MOTHER-IN-LAW by Nolo Segundo
ON VIEWING THE CORPSE OF MY MOTHER-IN-LAW
By Nolo Segundo
How could this –thing, have been her?Lying shriveled and small on the bedAs those who loved (and feared) herGathered in the bereft hospital roomTo let their...
OUT IN THE DISTANCE by Holly Day
OUT IN THE DISTANCEBy Holly Day
Spring
ice melts in noisy rivuletsresumes descent on muddy river banks
poking its greasy snout out of the watera bullhead lumbers out of torpor, floats to the surface
frightens newly-hatched crawfish and...