LISP by Jean-Luc Fontaine
LISPby Jean-Luc Fontaine
Ode to the Old Naked Man in the Gym Locker Room
Have you ever seen a throng of half-naked....muscled men turn their heads in shamelike little boys during the nude scenes of an...
WOMEN IN LOVE by Karen Deaver
WOMEN IN LOVEby Karen Deaver
Women in Love
Her art, his mine, saliva minglesin the Midlands grass cut sweet andtongues lap to the rescue
of the drowned. No one wasto know their hearts were promisedbetween mountains and...
LISBON by Byron Beynon
LISBONby Byron Beynon WAVESFirm muscles of watermove deliberately across the boardpumping the air with sounds;a panoply of waves,the preserved overlapin a mind of curling whisperscome to blend with the shore.Complex characterswith a fickle strengththeir joints...
DEAR PROFESSOR by Jason Boone
DEAR PROFESSORby Jesse Benjamin
Dear Professor
You know so much more of the world than I,Even though you lack the simplest sophistications,Born as you were, in the fine dust of the piedmont,Reared in staggering steps, between...
SWALLOW by Keith Hoerner
SWALLOWBy Keith Hoerner engrossed with millions of americansin others’ misfortunes movement distracts me from the nearly two-hundred pound nine year old on tv you carry a juicy earthworm in your bone-colored beak to feed three tiny,...
CONSTANT CRAVING by Mark Young
Survivisection A coal stove burns in the corner. I don't want a coal stove. In a survival situation, versatility is essential.Knife, ax & machete — these items are extremely necessary. Other minimallists have taken the count-ing challenge to the limit.I...
UNLIKE A DREAM by Mark Tulin
UNLIKE A DREAMby Mark Tulin
A Skeleton’s Tie-Dye
The esoteric bearded manat a Dead concertfelt the spirit of the 60srippling through his bonesthat made his white T-shirtturn into a tie-dye swirl.
He’s a dancing skeleton,a man who...
AFTERNOON MUSING by Steven Gerber
AFTERNOON MUSINGby Steven Gerber I gaze from my window,side-tracked from thevolume of Mythology,open on my lap.My notebook nearby,I am now impacted.I wallow in the shadowsof West, Steinbeck, Fante,and all others whom havegraced this great state.I...
SOME MONDAY OR ANOTHER by RC deWinter
SOME MONDAY OR ANOTHERby RC deWinter
Some Monday or AnotherI wasn't there when the microwave caught fire.This is what happens when dementors roam unsupervised.No real damage except now there's no microwave.Someday a new one from...