LOVELY DREAMS by Mitchel Montagna
LOVELY DREAMSBy Mitchel Montagna
For Ann, 1953-1970
There’s darkness ahead, with reels of grief.But on Christmas Eve nobody could know.They gathered in church to voice their beliefin tones as serene as the falling snow.
Ann’s brother served...
CLARITY by Irene Mitchell
CLARITYBy Irene Mitchell
Premonition
Fallen grapes eaten beneath the vines’ enclosure.All those annoying twists and tangles.
Wiser not to dwell on complexitybut feast on regenerative imagination.A drop of water on the lilypadalerts me to possibilities in the field.
What...
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...
DOG DAYS by Ian Smith
DOG DAYSBy Ian Smith
Dog Days
Overheard in the early stages of these beige days,my last challenge, trekking the desertfar from a ruinous prime when oases always shimmered,two women walking laps refer to a dog named...
RAPTURE OF FUNK by Lenny Lewis
THE RAPTURE OF FUNK
By Lenny Lewis
Two nights before Frediawas due backfrom elective castrationI carried her one-eyedblack dog down the stairs.Both of us soakedin his urine.It was all he could doto stand up. Totteringin circles....
WALKING by Patrick Hurley
WALKING…selectionsBy Patrick Hurley
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letters and numbers convergethen dissolve into pure sound
suddenly visible in the pavementa repeated pattern of circles
late sounds come to usapproaching dissonance beautifully
eyes burn and water–the airborne miasma
each cold breath a knife bladeand...
THREE POEMS by Tamara Williams
THREE POEMSBy Tamara Williams
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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...