Category: Published Issues
In My Father’s House
by David Cope we walk thru his rooms, sit where he sat, tell stories — the wild ride back from Hana, his teenage self scaling Long’s Peak on the
Last Look
by David Cope the room is silent, empty but for the bier. she lies, sheet draped over her body — she is so small in death
Mais où sont les neiges d’antan?
by David Cope what became of the girl whose dreams dressed up for Madame Pomponelli’s neighborhood fashion show, the sixth grader who skipped on
No Place Nowhere
by John Michael Mouskos She said, “There was a knock at the door; The boy had returned, Walking through the night, To be with us once more.”
By The Sea
by John Michael Mouskos “I hear Gordon’s been painting; He must be feeling better in himself.” “No, Gordon’s busy dying; The cancer’s spread.
eschatology
by Pamela Twining I laughed at Death again today I laughed as only Life can laugh snatched tomorrow from the jaws of the bone collector burning
i sold your car today
by Pamela Twining as i slough off another piece of you i still sometimes wear your skin see through your eyes walk journeys my legs have never
Spring Fog from a Rear Window on Water Street
by James Reidel The inspiration here is too window shopped, But the cat arches against the glass, Getting comfortable after the long winter,
Red LifeSavers
by James Reidel The cherry ones, So painfully close to the weakest of medicines — Luden’s, Smith Bros., Hall’s, Hardly a saccharide shy of penny
“ . . . leaves: They will cure my hunger”
by James Reidel “ . . . leaves: They will cure my hunger” Ch’en Tzu –lung The grass is dusted by frost and your bare feet grow