Poem by Diane Sahms-Guarnieri
Photography by Allison Goldin.
Poem by Anne Whitehouse
Photography by Allison Goldin.
Poem by Tatjana Debeljački
Photography by Allison Goldin
Poem by Miriam Sagan
Apocalypse In A Little While Sitting at the Betsy Hotel Drinking coffee on South Beach I’ve taught myself once again To say please and thank you I could weep, pierced [...]
Poem by Jake St. John
Slow Drag I sit in eternity on this river an early spring sun struggles through clouds ferry boats sail towards open sea with my thoughts of yesterday in tow and [...]
Poem by Gregory Crosby
The Note Is there one? It's the first question, always. It seems crucial, more essential than the stain that some hand will have to scrub, the tongue tucked back between [...]
Poem by Keith Nunes
jinjer on the edge we don’t have to go home we can carve up your nightmares and feed them to the piranha, take loan sharks for swims up the engorged [...]
Poem by Keith Gaboury
The Man Who Lives in a Giant Naked Woman Morton, Ella. “The Man Who Lives in a Giant Naked Woman.” Slate. 9 May 2014. Armando sleeps in the fat of [...]
Flash Fiction by Timothy Gager
The Prominent Father When I moved back from the Rain Forrest, it had been two years since I spoke to my father. He saw I was back on-line, the picture [...]
Poem by Bruce Wise
An Earthquake Near the Town of Liberty by Ubs Reece Idwal A magnitude 4.3 earthquake rumbled underneath the Cascade Mountain Range in Washington, at 1:04, on February 18, 2015, just [...]
Oddball Poets Accepted for BILiNE
Oddball Magazine is pleased to announce its nominations for Volume 2 of the literary anthology Best Indie Lit New England (BILiNE) from Black Key Press. The Kickstarter program for BILiNE was [...]
Poem by Clifton Redmond
Another Day He sits on the window sill, all day outside the corner pub, going through his pockets, fingering, frisking, scratching. he finds a betting slip rolled into a white [...]
Poem by Scarlett Pedersen
Boston-Olympia This morning, I stayed in bed a few extra hours Wishing for cement to replace the blood in my veins So I’d never have to move again… It’s been [...]
Poem by Seth Howard
Memory of Summer in Hanazonocho Opening the blinds to the light of new beginnings, shadows of his past Hover in limbo, near, a moment comes Like a stranger who enters [...]
Poem by Aleph Altman-Mills
Hoarding Empties "She’s never more beautiful than when she’s completely gone." -Daphne Gottlieb, pilot light Remember that abandoned house we played in? The windows: loose scarred skin. The bricks: still [...]
Poem by Donna M. Davis
The Pervert In my nightmare, a sinister wall phone rings. I pick up the red receiver. It dribbles salacious static. Indistinct phrases buzz blue. I cringe at the sound of [...]
Poem by Jake Tringali
under the merch table without a doubt, this scummy bar should be closed / burned without prejudice condemned as the investigation to this night's crime scene / of the most [...]
Poem by Anne Whitehouse
My Cuba My grandparents left Cuba in the early sixties; they never imagined the revolution would last. After the Cuban missile crisis, they realized they were cast out of Eden. [...]
Two Poems by John De Herrera
Still Holding Out It is an autumn afternoon like this, when palms are drawn still in the calmness before breezes out of the east arrive; and the deepening gold shining [...]
Two Poems by Kathi Kaity
A Petty Gift This is the elephant in the room that is Me, Crocodile tears and bird wings and all. I am the paradoxical queen of the zoo, able to [...]
Poem by Jacques Fleury
Coming Home Well, because a fall leaf fell before my feet today I see In serendipity I yearn to live daily, Consider this my soliloquy. To awake to its bounty [...]
Poem by Jake St. John
The Distance For Joe Gouveia When you’re born they turn you loose into the ring no experience just a punchers chance and a good chin swinging and jabbing and always [...]
Poem by Paul R. Davis
Diamond Dreams, Coal in Your Hands Like walking in chains, like dancing without holding, your mouth spits wormwords, you sigh a mountain of complaints. Fifty years from now coal will [...]
Poem by B.T. Joy
Christ In The Desert -after Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoi You painted him as you had painted others, the peasants of your time; or how you rounded shadows into the soft hollows [...]
Poem by Andrew K. Peterson
Non-Committal Political Poem New York Red Bulls versus New England Revolution counter-pressures before pressure a trophy atrophies as my friends tend the daisies say – “don’t eat your ancestors” “that [...]