Category: Published Issues
Cornbread
by Wren Tuatha Cotton takes care of me. I mend and wonder where a word went as Cotton hops out of bed, feeds the herd, showers. I’m late with his
10am. Every Day, Even When It Rains
by Michael Mark We’re all widowers here, all old guys, just happened that way. Our dates are dogs. Terriers, labs, mutts. They rush to each
Turning East
by Margaret Randall Earth, that solid ball beneath our feet spins in the vastness of space where neither up nor down exists, while on the orbital
Great Aunt June Saves the World
by Michael Bove On the banks of the Susquehanna they lived in a shack. Frost between wood slats, a paltry wall between winter and themselves:
“Plausible Sounding Names and Addresses”
by Michael Bove Was what the ghost of Emily Dickinson provided to the men who tried to reach her through a Ouija board sometime in the early
Berdyaev
by Roger Hickin among philosophers I love the turbulent Berdyaev with his aristocratic habits & alarming facial tic a thinker who conceded
Like Monk, Like Lacy
by Roger Hickin i. don’t say too much like Monk’s notes words need silence stop breathe dig check out spaces in between ii. honks peeps pops Lacy
Leaf Rain Marble
by Roger Hickin i. (after Spiridon Drozhzhin) a leaf blown from its native branch you drift with no road of your own ii. Valdicastello in
Hamlet
by Carlos Martínez Rivas Hamlet a monologue I What a worry. It’s Saturday. I’ve nothing to drink. It’s not a plan or a
The Spanish Painter
by Carlos Martínez Rivas — I want to paint a man with a lantern. — Do it. But what will you put around him to make him stand out? — Night, of