Steve Klepetar Solstice As summer begins, light travels the trails of the universe, curving around to wheat fields where crows gather in fury at this late hour dusk, beating their black wings. Steve Klepetar is a little worried about his future.
Read MoreGeorge Lee Perfect goodbye In perfect thirds we say goodbye You, my subject, framed in silver Our words composed for the start, Not the end. George Lee is a budding thinker trying to find his place in the world.
Read MoreScott Hughes Old Plot My father drives me around his new property, a tract slicing into the Okefenokee Swamp, and points out the grotesquely twisted pines, the spot where a B-29 fireballed to earth in ‘48, and the nearly toppling house where Seminoles led by Billy Bowlegs slaughtered an entire family, and he says, “One […]
Read MoreJ.R. Solonche On a Photograph of Me Shit, how I envy all the millions who lived before photography. J.R. Solonche has been publishing poetry since the early 70s.
Read MoreJ.R. Solonche Van Gogh, Cornfield with Lark He wanted to be a poet more than a painter, so when van Gogh tried to paint the sound of the lark as it ascended into the sky above the cornfield, he painted the lark. J.R. Solonche has been publishing poetry since the early 70s.
Read MoreMichael Dwayne Smith I wanted to be a young woman leaping from a tall building, which I cannot do because my body is made of sky and to fall through myself is what makes me a man, this dying upward. Michael Dwayne Smith lives near a Mojave Desert ghost town, where his latest book, Roadside […]
Read MoreTodd Mercer Skewering “Stab me once, shame on you…” says my shrink-friend, voting for divorce over patching up, while we grill a ton of meat for his umpteen teenage offspring, “…fewer punctures = better.” Todd Mercer coined the popular culture term “high-tracked” (becoming side-tracked from one’s stream of thought due to being high) and wrote […]
Read MoreTodd Mercer DEFCON 1 “Jesus wept,” Mom said, that prominent forehead vein flexing as her offspring scattered to the four points of the compass, no one lingering to see the explosion, or what landed where. Todd Mercer coined the popular culture term “high-tracked” (becoming side-tracked from one’s stream of thought due to being high) and […]
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