by Rickey Rivers Jr Tribulation Beads of sweat given to every woman with knotted hair, dark children hide in the cool shadows of their mothers. Walk. Watch them walk across the desert, feet blistering and […]
Two Poems by Fabrice Poussin
As She Builds Planets You must respect the space around the body for she lives to build planets for tomorrow. Dim she seems in the paleness of her shawl yet she burns with the passion […]
Persephone
by Rae Rozman Last night, I dreamt of us on a warm fall evening sitting beside a campfire Tom Petty crooning Wildflowers from unseen speakers passing a bottle of bourbon back and forth. You wore […]
New Island Revealed by Melting Glaciers
by Ajay Kumar Dimensions of the island- you by me. The news anchor forgets her name, on the news-there is nothing to say, the weather forecast before a blank map- we’ll see what happens. It […]
Three Poems by Rae Rozman
Dualities I slept with your glove (maroon, leather) woven between my fingers. It smelled like you. I awoke with your glove (leather, maroon) pressed against my naked chest. It smelled like me. How quickly you […]
The Ruins
by Jen Mierisch I. In the nineteen-eighties, my parents’ house collapsed. Stubbornness split its beams, conflict cracked the foundation, friction wore away its floors. Walls rotted from the constant floods of bitterness and disenchantment. A […]
Candy Canes
by Amanda Crum Donetta Cain was an eyeballer. Everyone else at the factory relied on measurements, and she had too, in the first year. She had poured the syrup precisely, kneaded the sugary mass until […]
A Breach In The Wall
by Marco Etheridge &&&Booth’s momentary enlightenment cost him three broken ribs and a moon-shaped scar under his eye. Sara was only the catalyst. The scar stayed with him longer than she did. &&&He could still […]
&&& By the third Friday of October, the worst of the cold hasn’t found its way east. Shelby thinks it wants to snow, but it can’t yet. Nature has to wait sometimes, too, even if […]
&&&The sun warmed him as the rolling waves sang their hypnotic song. Eyelids heavy, he licked the salt from his lips, content to lie there on the sand without a care in the world. &&&“Mr. […]
