John Hansen Jefferson Street 10:57 by the Farmers & Merchants Bank’s Clock, 96° outside, inside a cool bed of dimes. John Hansen is English Faculty at Mohave Community College in Arizona and his work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Summerset Review, The Pluralist, Philological Review, and Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature.
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Pippa Phillips “By a planet’s measure…”
Pippa Phillips By a planet’s measure, a millenium is just a breath, the childhood memory of spinning yourself dizzy in your father’s office chair. Pippa Phillips is a recovering academic who hasn’t yet given up her peripatetic lifestyle.
Read MoreAndrea Lynn Koohi “Paper Thin”
Andrea Lynn Koohi Paper Thin Whenever we played Rock, Paper, Scissors you’d always win by cutting through me, as if you knew even then how easy I was to shred. Andrea Lynn Koohi is a creative writer and non-profit copywriter from Toronto, Canada.
Read MoreCorey Mesler “Sylvi Ascending”
Corey Mesler Sylvi Ascending My granddaughter, at two, knows she can break me in half with a frown, and I wouldn’t consider such a thing as grist for a poem except she comes back and come back, straight into my heart with a little load of lightning. Corey Mesler has been published in numerous anthologies […]
Read MoreCorey Mesler “A Stray Storm”
Corey Mesler A Stray Storm A stray thunderstorm, without collar or ID, snuck into our neighborhood, rolled around on the lawns, begged for a quick belly rub and a scratch behind its dark grey ears, before letting loose a howl that darkened the moon and soaked our homes, shaking its considerable coat. Corey Mesler has […]
Read MoreBethany Reid “What She Memorized for the Test”
Bethany Reid What She Memorized for the Test Not the quadratic equation but the need for things to add up and not the tangent, not the isosceles triangle, but the way all angles lean into what becomes: bundles of hypotenuses, factors and powers, the heron flying, drawing a line across your circumference of sky. Bethany […]
Read MoreSteve Klepetar “Cities of the Plains”
Steve Klepetar Cities of the Plain You peer back toward the cities of the plain where you smell the smoke of their burning, watch white ash fall among pines Steve Klepetar plans to watch the presidential election returns with a towel over his head. (We are planning to spend election night just staring at the […]
Read MoreJohn Grey “Remission”
John Grey Remission Her hair is coming through the baldness, a bed of nails, but not like the one she’s been lying on. John Grey is an Australian born, US resident poet.
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