Andy Fogle Four Poems At 60 he strokes the fly lure’s hackle and is 12. * The spider’s caught in paint a shade called zephyr. * Tea drunk, empty cup steams on. * Her hand’s in his back pocket and his is in hers. Andy Fogle is a Virginian living in upstate New York and […]
Read MoreRay Templeton A Short Rain shakes out of the wind whipping grit and grass, slicing trees in slow-motion monochrome that cuts to a long shot overhead of the dog running, raking snow-patches on the path curling out of sight on the hill, as shouts sound off to one side, fading. From a Siege Journal The […]
Read MoreSarah Thursday Last Hour of 37 Just before midnight, I lay under the Palms Springs sky on silver-blue foam in a saltwater pool with the edge of your tongue and curves of your long fingers pulling me towards your liberation of my body from the taut strings of the bathing suit around my neck. Sarah Thursday […]
Read MoreErica Goss The Scent of Orange Blossoms My father braked hard, kicked the car door open, and dancing, disappeared into the orchard yelling, do you smell them, do you smell – and into my freeway-leaded childhood the scent of orange blossoms wafted like a stranger’s perfume. Erica Goss is the Poet Laureate of Los Gatos, […]
Read MoreWendy Russ Naked In winter woods, the trees stand naked, unashamed. Wendy Russ is a writer living in the gorgeous foothills of the Ozarks.
Read MoreBrad Rose Emo Girl and Me at El Vagabundo Eyes, a condemned asylum, fingernails, blue as a boxer’s vein, you’re a drunk-haired dream skiffing me across this Mexicali dance floor, just trying to make me feel ……….good ……………..better, ……………………..the best, I’ve ever felt in this buzz-shrill demimonde, and I’ll be damned if I ain’t already ………….half- […]
Read MoreTimothy McLafferty Citrus How nice to want a lemon and find one there—waxed and gleaming in the light. McLafferty lives in Queens, likes Bronk.
Read MoreTalaia Thomas Skunks The patient reports Side effects From his medication: Olfactory hallucinations So strong His neighbors Are beginning to smell the skunks too. Rejection Slips In the mail today came the makings of another six birds to join my origami aviary. Talaia Thomas lives, writes, and works in Vermont and has been published […]
Read More