Poetry: Four Poems by Nancy Allen
The A.T. has its dangers: bears, crazy armed
loners, frostbite, but this carnival ride
tops the list.
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Four poems by Surabhi Balachander
Always the possibility. Once upon a time we were lost on an island, halfway across the Bay Bridge. She wore the same clothes for two or three days, without washing […]
Three Poems by Ben Gunsberg
Vernice Bianca Luthiers say you can’t replicate a 16th century Stradivarius. Maple back and willow blocks varnished with honey, egg white, gum arabic. All but done, Stradivari brushed this vernice […]
Four poems by W. Luther Jett
REQUIEM Somewhere in summer we lost our virginity. Was it under the yellow streetlamp, where the moths beat their blind wings? Or behind the door in the sound-wall running […]
Four Poems by Zachary Scott Hamilton
All | Rooms All rooms weave a lodging memory from a chandelier, leaking little flowers from the mini-fridge, the personal fan, Anne’s lace, that doggy through the clouds, her […]
Five poems by Valerie Wallace
The Young Ornithologists Club, 1979 after Alexander McQueen, 1969-2010 Here it has facts about birds. Did you know when a peregrine falcon flies, it is the fastest animal? Here’s […]
Four Poems by Elizabeth O’Brien
But let this be a kind of fuel. If you cannot be sweet, be mild like quince on a tree. If you must shear jagged, burn slow.
Five Poems by Ben Swimm
Gene Gun A good use as gold goes: bury it back within the Earth. Bless it with our burdens, or burden it with blessing us: may you bring forth a […]
Four poems by Loren Moreno
Fireflies in Union Square Sound Like Your Father Whole skyscrapers. Grand glittering ornate monuments to my own ineptitude I could build and still never satisfy him. Not even these […]
Four poems by Roy Bentley
“It’s a matter of taking hold of one hand/and letting go another, if you’re lucky”
