Category: Published Issues
The Hammock
by Matthew Caley “What wind so blew that a hammock netted a man?” Anon. Two silver birches bear the burden, which after all is only some
Buffalo Skinners
by Matthew Caley Having left M’Lady half-naked and panting, as her husband mounted the stairs, I vaulted the balustrade — preferred exit of
The Confluence of the Elbe and The Upa
by Matthew Caley Supposedly, the cool silver birch bole barely two hips width shudders like a woman on the brink of believing in her man They are
For All the Good It Did Us
by Jim Daniels I smiled at the gate of Lord Larry, the Boy with the Swimming Pool. The small plastic / rubber / aluminum circle stand-in for Ye
The Emeriti
by Gerald Locklin When Toad goes for his morning coffee and Raisin-bran cookies at the Donut Shoppe, His wife asks, “Off to hang out With your
Close-knit Family
by Gerald Locklin Toad is bragging How his thirteenth grandchild Is due in less than a week, and His eighty-year-old new buddy At the donut
Uncle Jack
by Mike Pulley You died twice, appropriately, Since you lived two lives in one, A childhood future-enfolded, a kid embedded In age-spot skin. The
Aubade
by Sandy Weisman I get up to row on the river. My scull glides to the gloomy edge of the water thick with spent lilies. A great blue heron
The Gravel Diaries
by Martin Ott The pen scratches a long-ago itch. A one-eared dog brays at a coyote invading his street. The delivery truck coughs too close for
Spring Thaw
by Mike Bove Side streets roil with rough slush, diminutive whitecaps loll at the foot of driveways, mailboxes wear melting crowns and bow low