Two Poems by Kayla Rae Candrilli
Pater Familias: Way with Words He waves from the sepia-toned dock, the folds in his Army uniform crisp. Forty-five years later, grandfather remains a mystery to my father and [...]
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Two Poems by Lynne Potts
FACTS, CHICKENS, AND TRAIN TRACKS Acquisition in the lobby of the El Rancho Hotel, Gallup New Mexico where the waitress wears braids to her waist and the train outside slides [...]
Three Poems by Bennett Allen
Losing My Edge What’s it like to be a gay warden? Sorry, deputy warden I want to ask him but don’t He smelled me out right away First thing’s first [...]
Voices in the Belfry by Keith Moul
I met for years with contrary shades of my own being, pressed heatedly my claims; duly performed suitable penalties; hauled from life’s mine tons of ore. In fact, some [...]
A moment of thought while drinking my morning coffee by Barry Yeoman
A gray misty sky hangs down low to demand retrospection. Yesterday is an ancient dream I don’t remember what I dreamt last night. What were you dreaming? Everyday is [...]
four dog track poems by B.R. Yeager
Milky Way I was too high and the customers could tell. Negating the cold water rubbed into my eye sockets. “Having fun, boy?” Donald winked. I pulled out his fourth [...]
2KBK by Cara Lorello
He left a note for me on the cardboard back cover of a notepad hung by a magnate on the fridge, all its paper gone from grocery lists, in thick, black marker script, his [...]
Two Poems by Jenya Doudareva
Single Malt Upward is where you look to find Unsatisfying answers to Somebody else’s dumb questions. Upward is the most optimal Direction for throwing shit To ensure that [...]
Three Poems by Sloane Eliot
there will be bruises Dark bar, dark stares in candle light champagne on tap, funneled into my mouth with alarming speed to keep from thinking the myriad ways in which i hate [...]
Three Poems by Andrea Lawler
Life is a Book Written by Bukowski Sitting in the car in the sweltering heat in the hospital parking lot waiting for my mother to get off of work reading Love is a Dog from [...]
two poems by liz minette
After After you died, your house was still a mess; like always, always when we’d come over, you’d say ‘Excuse the mess.’ Step ladder and paint [...]
Two Poems by Michelle Watters
moon goddess moonlights as a suburban housewife she could be drawing down the moon but instead she loads the dishwasher reminds her daughter to do her homework she has the [...]
Blizzard of 1950, Eatontown NJ by Lee Landau
Sometimes, too many times Mom went crazy, never meant for children, particularly three girls in a low rent, attached home, three way-shared bedroom, and seven feet of play [...]
Sheboygan County, Wisconsin No.1 by John Dorsey
a kid jacking another kid in the face outside the elementary school an old man in a fur coat carrying a dollhouse picking through our garbage the loss of magic that [...]
the rainy part of the world by mark petterson
After the rundown middle school where I tutor a thirteen-year-old who reads at a second-grade level, and really we just read comic books and he pretends he is asleep and I [...]
Two Poems by Sarah Sala
POEM AFTER MAN: KITCHEN TABLE 1. I thought here’s a man who owns who he is. Look how natural you move in your animal skin. 2. Paraffin wax burns at a steady rate of 0.1 [...]
two poems by megan kemple
Thanks for the Christmas Present I’ve always preferred thunderstorms to sunny days, Rain on rusted tin roofs, steady as my Mother’s tears, pinging the side of an A-frame [...]
Two Poems by Emily Bernard
TAKE A LEAF FROM MARY’S BOOK Virginal – winding as a wordy tour of a world For thrill rides – a four-minute toast to a man There is a limelight and you are green [...]
two poems by carolyn elias
Animals in Winter A pale yellow sun observes brown trout undulating inside a frozen lake, the red swollen bellies of cardinals cajoling grey squirrels and hares scurrying [...]
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