WORK OF ART by Valerie Patrick
WORK OF ARTby Valerie Patrick Work of ArtHold my face like the Portland VaseTrace the pictures on my cheekbonesGaze into my eyes like the Mona LisaAppreciate every stroke of colorCaress my body like...
ANNIVERSARY by Cathryn Essinger
ANNIVERSARYby Cathryn Essinger
Anniversary
The Harvest Moon rising frombehind the strip mall appears tetheredto the horizon, but soon it will clearthe radio tower on the far...
WORDS UNSPOKEN by Kimberly Crocker
WORDS UNSPOKENby Kimberly Crocker
Words Unspoken By Kimberly Crocker
She dissolved from the feet up,vanishing in surreptitious bites like thosetaken by children when no one...
PICTURE NEGATIVE by Gabrielle Amarosa
PICTURE NEGATIVEby Gabrielle Amarosa Stars’ Crossed LoveI see her across an inky sky,Pure light,Brighter than any other.She is part of the great bear—Like a bear herself,The strongest and most fiercely beautiful.We all orient...
LEAVING BUCHAREST by Jules Elleo
LEAVING BUCHARESTby Jules Elleo
Leaving Bucharest
In the courtyardof my apartment block,there is an elm tree.Its foliage reaches upto the 5th floor.Its rootsrun deepbeneath our sleep.TwiceI will...
TODAY I TRAVELED TO THE PAST by Jose Manuel SÁNCHEZ
TODAY I TRAVELED TO THE PAST by Jose Manuel SÁNCHEZ
GÜEI VIAXÉ AL PASÁU
Nel vieyu mundiugüei entamaba l’inviernu,güei ye’l Samaín,“l’acabu del verañu”.+++++Güei lleve-yos floresa los mios...
THE DOORS by Kevin Cahill
THE DOORSby Kevin Cahill The Doors Amid a bust-up of bell-bottoms and police-dogsand a flashing skink undoing himself in view, the song starts. Keeps in the hand for a minute, composing itself, wiggling, disbanding into...
NOT A PRAYER by Diana Anhalt
NOT A PRAYERby Diana Anhalt
For Ethel Figueroa, the Librarian, My Heroine,
who lets me hide in the library— closed for recess—when girls in patent leather,...
FINGER BY FINGER by Ashley Green
FINGER BY FINGERby Ashley Green
Phantom I
She knew something I didn’t,pale with untold prophecyand horror.You’ll stop loving me, she saidand her dilated gazeswam in...
CALM by Elana Wolff
CALMby Elana Wolff Calm,not so long ago / the river ambling through the valley /easy in the aptitude of being in the blue beside the fireweedand pocket gophers stomping on the vandal grass...
