Jeanie Tomasko Craigslist Because no matter the weather, the work of the birds is to shine, like this morning’s five rusty gray sparrows huddled in the overnight snow on the horn and handlebars and along the horizon of the gleaming exhaust pipe of the blue motorcycle that won’t start, $800 OBO, as is. Jeanie Tomasko […]
Read MoreKim Ellingson Untitled #9 His voice changes when he talks to you. Kim Ellingson, poet and activist, whose work has appeared in FIVE:2:ONE, is a writer in residence at Var Gallery in Milwaukee.
Read MoreUma Menon sun//shower imagine wearing sunglasses in the rain, just to hide the tears streaming down your face. Uma Menon is a writer and student at Winter Park High School.
Read MorePeter C. Venable In Blue Robe In blue robe, fuzzy slippers, you sip coffee wet hair hanging from morning sunbeams. Peter C. Venable serves a life sentence, condemned to write poetry and hopes to flavor his with wit on wry.
Read MoreJ. R. Solonche The House to Myself This Afternoon The house to myself this afternoon, I could go upstairs and lie on my back in the spare room, on the sofa, my head on two or three pillows, my legs folded up with somebody’s book on my knees, in the sun from my chest up, […]
Read MoreMoss Ingram Poem A poem, is more than the quietude following a relentless rain, is a sandy-haired boy standing steady in a splintered rowboat pushing heels of callused hands to the sun heaving a heavy stone into a swallowing stream, is a soft spray of stars sparkling across his freckled face, is the obsidian water […]
Read MoreTom Sheehan Solo Shot One winter in Korea a violin went awry, sound waves thin as tracers or wires snipped, cut loose from redwood stain, danced over snowfields, up the mountain hold, shattered wet air with heart’s recovery, tore stiletto quick in snow’s embalmment, feather down’s triple blanketing and brawn as some player played defilade, […]
Read MoreSteve Klepetar Snow Music Along the river snow gleamed for a moment in the air, then tumbled into black water and disappeared. Steve Klepetar has reached a plea agreement with Robert Mueller.
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