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Poems

Mimi Overhulser: “Treat”

Mimi Overhulser Treat On the first day of summer, the trailer park sings like diamonds, sparkles like a new mother. Mimi Overhulser lives in a lovely adobe hovel 100 ft. from the Pecos River in the village of San Juan, New Mexico, and listens to goats while writing in the early mornings (which may say a lot about […]

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Mimi Overhulser: “Trick”

Mimi Overhulser Trick Rapt as opera junkies, their fat sleek bodies bobbing just below my bait and not one even tempted.   Mimi Overhulser lives in a lovely adobe hovel 100 ft. from the Pecos River in the village of San Juan, New Mexico, and listens to goats while writing in the early mornings (which may say a […]

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Trish Saunders: “Dallas Instructions”

Trish Saunders Dallas Instructions Mrs. Kennedy will wear her pink suit today with white gloves to protect her hands from the roses.     Trish Saunders lives in Seattle and Honolulu and, in her imagination, Paris during the 1940s.

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Howie Good: “After the Frost”

Howie Good After the Frost Then like that it’s spring a young driver nervously steering a green minivan down our street & smack into a tree. Howie Good continues to confuse ordinary posts on Facebook with Onion articles, and vice versa.

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Sreedhar Vinnakota: “We Men”

Sreedhar Vinnakota We Men We grappled, bit by bit unravelling the universe with Einstein’s relativity and Planck’s quantum to understand aging twins, shrinking rods, slowing clocks, atoms floating, and pixellated light, all the while feeling smug and smart that we could control the universe and dictate its future until we heard the shots that splattered […]

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Robert Esposito: “The Lavender Scare”

Robert Esposito The Lavender Scare I imagine it: miasmic flowers bursting from the steelwork of skyscrapers, for I had not learned of this era in school. Robert Esposito currently reads prose for The Blueshift Journal and is generally afraid of the past.

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John Grey: “Small Town USA”

John Grey Small Town USA Old Farmer Bones rotates his crops, plows old corn into the ground to make way for a fall barley harvest while, at the parade site, cops hustle some kids smoking cigarettes out from behind the VIP stand. John Grey is an Australian born poet and short story writer who is […]

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John Grey: “Roadkill USA”

John Grey Roadkill USA It’s such a relief that my guts are not scattered all over the road, and that I never have to know the embarrassment of being nothing more than what people see me as.   John Grey is an Australian born poet and short story writer who is resident in Rhode Island […]

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