Category: Published Issues

last time I checked I was still alive
by Patrick Doyle loving you one hundred years ago was like the last living moment of a piece of birch before it gets put on another log to get

teens
by Patrick Doyle we cackled on the playground of eternity, while the see–saw of reality launched our feet closer to the stars, and then it

crocodile days
by Patrick Doyle Over the last few days I’ve felt like I have a crocodile on my body, all jade colored and sparkling like a beautiful

You Pond
by Patrick Doyle yr freckles are like triumphant little sunburns of beauty. every one of them is a lilypad on the pond of your soul. my swarm of

existential love seat
by Patrick Doyle hunting in the trees of Maine in 1969, a psychedelic phenomenon would launch itself like a pinetree version of NASA: a curious

Figment Three
by Gerald George He just kept buying them in antique stores, the old framed photoed faces with no names on the back, so many displaced

Figment Two
by Gerald George After old Archibald put in an espresso machine, all the poets in town sat in Archibald’s Grocery and Gas drinking espresso and

Witness Tree
by Marcia F. Brown On the Civil War battlefield at Gettysburg, historians call them “Witness Trees” . . . Last week, Park officials

Fashionista
by Marcia F. Brown Too brown for winter and brittle as a wishbone, she marches through the store in ostrich boots, stilettos spiked enough to

Tomatoes, summer’s first
by Dan Alter and this one is for Michigan, for her latticed rivers, for her fireflies tickering the dark which is made of muslin, which cloaks