Category: Published Issues
Shattered
by Bryce Milligan I’ve seen mezzo sopranos shatter glass and wondered how this high A–flat that sings — an octave above my guitar’s last
Finger of the Goddess
by Bryce Milligan I took the finger of the goddess, broke it from her statue in the shadows cast by years so dim now they cannot be told from
Sowing in the Snow
by Bryce Milligan The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind. — Emily Dickinson Deep in this
As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams
by Michael Estabrook As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.
Had we but world enough, and time.
by Michael Estabrook Had we but world enough, and time. Andrew Marvell 1 Just like that, before I knew it, 40 years had gone, the
Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
by Michael Estabrook Hell is empty and all the devils are here. William Shakespeare 1 Yes I know I could’ve become a famous poet that
Telling a Friend about Reading Lorca in the Alhambra
by Mary O’Donnell This was happiness, I said. We talked about the quick, perfect stealth of those moments. I sat beneath orange trees, and the
Those Prostitutes in Cuba
by Mary O’Donnell for J S They were like two kittens, he said, snuggling up to him, they were fun and they liked him. I thought —
comfort station
by normal “in the wind time walks” — Nanao Sakaki 1 i am building soft nets for death by
in the loved & tortured eyes
by normal “in defeat there are no prophets and no magicians only the look in the loved and tortured eyes”