Poets in this issue — click a name to read
- Agnew, Zach
- Altamira, Mia
- Barbour, Roxanne
- Bjotvedt, Connor
- Campbell, Colin
- Campbell, Jared
- Castaldi, Erin
- Cates, Anna
- Chapman, Jakob
- Chen, Alyssa
- Compton, Gayle
- Coombs, Margaret
- Decker, Laurie
- Depaul, Maria
- Fahey, Mary Crane
- Flanagan, Michael
- Glin, Amy
- Hale, Robert
- Hemmings, Kyle
- Hewitt, David
- Hicks, Scott
- Holm, Willa
- James, Alexander
- Kamp, Lianne✦
- Kane, Rebecca
- Lofrumento, Catherine
- Malik, Vyomi
- Melton, Bill
- Montgomery , Jennifer
- Pearson, Tom
- Prentice, Julia
- Robinson, Jackie Maugh
- Robinson, Melissa
- Rossi, Patricia
- Ruth-killgore, Chanacee
- Sargent, Angela
- Saunders, Cliff
- Sauve-rogan, Daniel
- Schueler, Joel
- Scott, Claire
- Sharp, Cynthia
- Shultz, David
- Thacker, Nicholas
- Turner, William
- Vecchitto, Michele
- Werner, Erin
- Willis, Jason
- Zedalis, Jackie
- Zempel, Rachel
- Zierke, Ethan
Jackie Maugh Robinson
as cool jazz trumpet notes
blow in time across the melody
your voice on the night wind
Ethan Zierke
her viewfinder eyes
shutter-finger takes a pulse
enslaved by the light
Claire Scott
I was mis-shelved when I was born
not filed under "v" for vivacious
but under "l" for lonely
David Shultz
Night sky from frozen
Cave mouth – icicles hold still
Their splintered half-moons
Daniel Sauve-Rogan
University,
starving and hysterical:
electricity
Scott Hicks
Forsaken river stones,
mineral immersions, perpetual baptisms,
smooth histories of forgiveness.
Bill Melton
filling ink-black space
silver sickle of a moon
floats across the sky
Jakob Chapman
Beneath desperate June's blistered sky
my eyes toy with her skin--
supple, river-wet gooseflesh.
Michele Vecchitto
Her hands define a lifetime of love
caressing, creating, cajoling, claiming
the shadows of a heart’s work
Laurie Decker
Sipping from your lips
I taste lies and truth
Poison is bittersweet
Angela Sargent
Laundry room spilling over with sins
Soap and water can't wash away
I shut the door in shame
Zach Agnew
The sun teeters,
Precariously balancing
On the edge of a solstice.
Jackie Zedalis
Her hands, steady
The wheel spinning around
Yielding to her creativity
Mary Crane Fahey
Luminosity limns the horizon,
Morning music spurs sleeper
Poking dreams away
Roxanne Barbour
spaceport overpass
triggering
cataclysmic volcano
Alyssa Chen
Out of being alive comes
Coffee stains on these wine glasses
Inexplicable, like you.
Robert Hale
She comes to me a-zig a-zag
Blue dragon whirring inches from my face
Many eyes, what do you make of me?
GAYLE COMPTON
Cap, gown,
keys to the Dollar Store--
magna cum laude
Joel Schueler
Now she knows
the whites of my eyes
a little deeper than yesterday
Connor Bjotvedt
A feeling worse than
Déjà vu, every morning,
toothpaste on my tie.
Margaret Coombs
swollen Milkweed pods
sated Monarch sojourners
rest roadside
Anna Cates
lone pumpkin
shrunken to mush
light flurries
Tom Pearson
Hong Kong bauhinia
on a road back to self
a red flower blooms
Lianne Kamp✦
warm summer shower
a toddler is baptized
in a rain puddle
Erin Werner
Seven tiny capsules
Submarines to be digested
And converted into happiness.
Colin Campbell
ozone layer shakes
warm wind blows out of mankind
out of woman too
Melissa Robinson
certainty is born
amorphic puddles of hues
necromancing O'Keefe
David Hewitt
Dragged down by the world’s weight,
through whispering white crystals
I glide, I float—free.
Rachel Zempel
black speckles on red
wings preparing to take flight
springtime adventure
Rebecca Kane
disappearing down ant hole
pirated potato chips
our picnic
Jennifer Montgomery
old smells
rain on gravel
lilacs
Cynthia Sharp
she who was everything
now gone forever
last sip of tea with coconut sugar
Vyomi Malik
Kaleidoscope
Hues of hope sing
Elope with dreams
Michael Flanagan
a rainbow arc
chases the sweep of water
over the infield
Jason Willis
A perfect roundness
And a soothing soft caress
Heaven in my hand
Nicholas Thacker
Compassion for life lost
Exploitation for profit
So the fires will burn till the end
Erin Castaldi
July heat
Weaver's web spans
A dove's coo
Jared Campbell
street light burns behind
its willow-veil
nightly confusion
Kyle Hemmings
my mute cool-hand lover
Mona Lisa smile
not a twitch
Amy Glin
leaves leave bare branches
a ceiling becomes a floor
fertile ground prepared
Chanacee Ruth-Killgore
honeysuckle climbs crumbling walls
sweet nectar perfumes still air
heavy clouds linger
Julia Prentice
Faint susurrations, brittle palm fronds
Whispering of woe
Through dry, green teeth
Patricia Rossi
faded palette
tattered canvas
brush strokes from days gone by
Mia Altamira
Silent moments hang -
Grinning, against dusk -
Glow - ache - dissolve
Willa Holm
down seaside deerpaths, we wade
waves of tick-infested grasses: go on,
burrow! in flesh, I am tempted too.
Maria DePaul
Lightning strikes sagebrush
Winds stir flames
Wildfire grasses
Catherine LoFrumento
summer wind
sketches of her tumble
across the grass
Alexander James
Midnight in Tokyo
Neon signs twinkle
Reflecting frozen sky
Cliff Saunders
The wind in the pines--
who will live,
who will die?
William Turner
cooling breath blown gently
soft pillow case head rest
stretched across his face.