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 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 Donal Mahoney
Fallout from the War on Women I was warm and toasty, curled up, napping in amniotic fluid, without a worry when suddenly this metal thing came into my room poked [...]
Poem by Wayne Russell
the mad ones oh give me the mad any day over the sane give me the drunks the wanderers the reckless recluses the homeless vagabonds the thieves of the night [...]
Poem by Jess Rizkallah
Abrupt Banjo Stubs Its Toe On A Stack of Love Letters all the letters in your name like wires dangling from a library book. zapzap like lint when my tongue [...]
Three Poems by Gordon Marshall
L.A. So of course I just write Another poem Why? Because we like you See you soon I live in a garbage can I'm Popeye the Sailor Man I love [...]
Poem by Roy Blokker
Scent in the Air A response to the crisis in the Ukraine The scent is rising, old world stench Found in books, nestled in my nostrils, Not the dusky smell [...]
Poem by Diane Sahms-Guarnieri
Modern Day Flossie 1. Danse Russe “If when (his) wife is (not) sleeping and the baby and Kathleen are sleeping.” Flossie follows her husband to his north room watches him [...]
Poem by John Grochalski
all life is suffering i don’t know where calvin found her because he was always so upstanding and his mother tried her hardest to keep him locked up on friday [...]
Poem by Colin Dodds
Seatbelts and Life Rafts Airlines drop me to my day. The jet engines hum a new weariness into the music of morning. In the terminal, I feel sanctified, or at [...]
Poem by Mel Waldman
If If the leaves stop flowing in the fall, and the only color sprawled across the earth is absence, the light that does not cover the sundry objects of mourning, or [...]
Poem by Kirstin Ruth Bratt
Bridges I. Why did you take pieces? Why did you take only should and breath leave me alone gasping in this salty air? Why won’t you come back? You could [...]
Three Poems by Michael Fitzgerald-Clarke
Canticle for Charlotte Drink our planet, knowing the sovereignty of salt water. Let the raindrops of night become the raindrops of day, until winter emerges from the heavens. The soul [...]
Poem by Thomas Gagnon
Recalling A Vigorous Verse-Maker You had declined for I could not measure the time, felt like thousands of thousands eclipses of the sun, your flow of words become few words [...]
Poem by Keith Gaboury
Tourist My Bostonian legs swoop and stumble on High Street to the harbor of hearts I read about in a travel book. A throng of waterfront locals are so ready [...]
Fiction by Samuel Burleigh
The Edward Hopper House It was a bitingly cold winter, even by the frigid standards of New England. Stephen James, a severely depressed, financially destitute bisexual painter, lived in Truro, [...]
Poem by Mel Waldman
Why do I sit with the corpse in the Garden of Nowhere Why do I sit with the corpse in the Garden of Nowhere? Why am I here? Will the [...]
Fiction by Peter Storey
Fire on the Ground “Alright. My name is Jeffers, and I’m the type two burn boss trainee. Today is Monday, June 10, and we’re here to put some fire on [...]
Poem by Jess Cording
Orphans Being pressed, I’ll only give an outline, smooth a silhouette in the dust to say This is what happened where love came to forget what it can’t remember and [...]
Poem by Senia Hardwick
Age 5 Choking is what woke my mother from sleep. blue in the face I gagged breathless. she shook my small body. no good. no good at all. a hand [...]
Two Poems by Lucy Tiven
Yahoo! Answers My hands don’t always shake when I speak it goes. Just another finky, disembodied voice trapped inside a greeting card. I guess. The way I see it there [...]
Poem by Jake Tringali
(no) fur “Crack” behind tree Please give me Ground to run Paw wet, wounded Exhausted Stalker closes in Veer downhill Now wounded Gain speed Through the ravine Close to rivers [...]
Poem by Martha Landman
Survivor Guilt Those birds entice the sky! Their chitter-chatter tweets birth the day like mountains birth from the ocean floor. A hillside village disappears in an Afghan landslide. Pleasure satiated [...]
Poem by Ayn Frances dela Cruz
Richard Running Richard running Through sideway streets Beautifully forgettable (I could have been here Once), all cobbled as Time slips nautically Beginning passages tense As arteries. Richard running On pavements [...]
Poem by Steve Klepetar
Working by Floodlight Early sunset, and now we set about to dig a trench working by floodlight in descending chill. Amazing how quietly we work considering the grate of spades [...]