TALK RADIO by Sugar Tobey
TALK RADIOby Sugar Tobey
Tang Dynasty Poem
She looks twenty but she’s abouttwelve hundred years old nowthe tang dynasty was a long time ago
she still waits for a young manto come and dig her a carp...
OLD SALT by Christina Petrides
OLD SALTby Christina Petrides
Old Salt
Flushed from alcohol, wind and weather,And grooved from age,The woman clutches her fishing rod and glares at the sea.It twinkles back at herAnd crashes unconcerned into the rocks below.
Barista
There’s a...
BUDDY by Jonathan Andrew Perez
BUDDYby Jonathan Andrew Perez
Burn, Barn, Burn
What remained couldn’t be salvaged from the shipwreck of my immobility.Climate change. Father warned me don’t dive deep:Wake before you go to sleep, migrate in the afternoonRead Borges, Neruda,...
SUNDAY COMING DOWN by Jamel Hall
SUNDAY COMING DOWNby Jamel Hall
Sunday Coming Down
The slight shudder of newspaperadds accents to the commercial break.My mother in her meekest vestmentspaces the house singing songs of jesus,of better days, and inheritance.
His name pressed to...