Category: Published Issues
The Matriarch of Big Green for Gloria Witham
by Kendall Merriam The summers were good pay, weather, catches the two of you worked hard during the winter as school teachers earned more
The Empress of China for Helen Lee – Righter
by Kendall Merriam It’s high tide on an old coast your warriors and court await your orders across the earth knowing you have faced pain
The Classicist for Susan Connelly
by Kendall Merriam She changed my mind on the way home from Shakespeare’s summer place no political stance, no food riot just how much she
One Flew Over the Rainbow’s Nest
by Wayne Atherton Gay culture co – opted the rainbow, adopted Judy Garland, bought up all the tickets to every Cher concert, left us dull
. . . Then Huncke, Then Corso, Then Janine, Then Ira, Then . . . for Laki
by Wayne Atherton What of the unseen elder Outlaw rebel death bird Gazing out from red – rimmed watery eyes Fraught with
Outtakes and Non Sequiturs from a longer work still in progress
by Wayne Atherton On puddle top at Puddle Dock, a symphony of rain rings; the whipsnap of canvas mast on Gundalow Down at the docks at
Rabbit Year, Penelope
by Laura Behr The first notes, sung upside down, in a warbler’s song. Eyes closed. Moonlight stripped, throat full of love. Relief bracing,
Ledge
by Alicia Fisher Lovely is the wild impassive rise of the sun. The day boils and sings. I lean into its cusp. I am here. This new is enough.
Mail Payment To
by Alicia Fisher God only knows how many people leave sticky notes for their dead, Pens pressed against slump – shouldered memories. We
Where Do Sons Come From ?
by Alicia Fisher It was vengeance, hot and dove – soft, that brought you to the wide doomy edge, a lucid candle standing Godtall and