Steve Klepetar Gracious In the end they were gracious, though I spoke too long of the Minoans, where they came from, their palaces and kings. Having once embarrassed himself mightily, Steve Klepetar always tries to wear matching socks.
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F.J. Bergmann “Again and Again”
F.J. Bergmann Again and Again You get excited about the seasons as if they had never happened before and while I will agree that each change in any of a myriad molecular arrays in every universe is of necessity unique I wouldn’t presume to rank them by effect on arbitrary senses even though that maple […]
Read MoreCorey Mesler “On the Way to the Old Forest”
Corey Mesler On the Way to the Old Forest Listening to gospel on the Wynne station— Johnny Cash signing “In the Garden”– on the way to The Old Forest, where we saw, amid the leafrot and lichen and sunstruck canopy, a handsome snake, which slipped across the path, startling us, reminding us that the world, […]
Read MoreCorey Mesler “Sacerdotalism”
Corey Mesler Sacerdotalism Under the stone more life than in a church. Corey Mesler has been published in numerous anthologies and journals including Poetry, Gargoyle, Five Points, Good Poems American Places, and New Stories from the South, and he owns a bookstore in Memphis.
Read MoreCorey Mesler “The Sickness”
Corey Mesler The Sickness In the 2 a.m. fog it comes like a roaring in one’s center, a brute bent on devouring all the confidence gained through persistence and steady gravity; it comes unbidden and I have learned awfully to not blame myself. Corey Mesler has been published in numerous anthologies and journals including Poetry, […]
Read MoreSarah Hopkins “This Will Pass”
Sarah Hopkins This Will Pass The boy who makes you smile is not the sun. Sarah Hopkins (she/her) is a writer in Chicago who can always be found with cats, plants, or books. sarahhopkinsm.com
Read MoreHilary Sideris “Transport”
Hilary Sideris Transport I take the Athens metro, my main means of metaphor, purchase for one euro what I will never know enough to read, so I can say parakalo, ephemerida, news- paper, please. Hilary Sideris is delighted to have a poem forthcoming in Anti-Heroin Chic.
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