HEARING by Diane Webster
HEARINGby Diane Webster
HEARING
My hearing intensifieswhen I lay me down to sleeplike feral cat dozingon top of abandoned shelfwith sounds ticklingdelicate ear hairs
like train whistle miles awaywith wind I am in my bedroomat my parent’s...
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...
BALM by Pitambar Naik
BALM
by Pitambar Naik
BalmPitambar Naik
Remember the havoc in your thick apple-red heartyour journey finishes in the middle of the rainy kisses how to coin a new emotive reaction in the autumn season your solitude is a bony...
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...
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,...