Poets in this issue — click a name to read
- Baldwin, Robert
- Beella Reine
- Bluestein, Paul
- Diamond, Elliot✦
- Do, Tuyet Van
- Enfield, Tyler
- Gentile, Nicholas
- Hershhorn, David✦
- Hunt, Robert
- Jd Sung✦
- Killgore, C L✦
- Lorraine Rose
- Sharp, Cynthia
- Smetanenko, Anna
- Wood, Chris
Robert Hunt
cloudburst...
creaky village bookshop
providing sanctuary
Elliot Diamond✦
mosquito bite–
a dark star
after midnight
Tuyet Van Do
work commute
against morning glare
dented cars
Anna Smetanenko
This opening
Heaven takes a photograph
Of seeds in water.
Nicholas Gentile
finally
thunder over the garden
so many hellos
Tyler Enfield
the rusty Ford idles out front
our fathers smoke without speaking
in the warmth of exhaust
Cynthia Sharp
resilient purple poppies
blooming wherever they are
whatever mood the sky
Beella Reine
My graduation bouquet
looked suprisingly cheerful
for something already cut.
JD Sung✦
swirl of ocean breeze
and suntan oil
skipping stones
Robert Baldwin
The curtain falls, silence…
Numerous seasons haunt this stage
In ghost light silhouette
C L Killgore✦
Restless nocturnal wanderings
Soft light etches the horizon
Weary eyes, heavy limbs walk on
David Hershhorn✦
We teach children not to stare;
to hide their wild curiosity, and count
as blessing, relief from observance.
Chris Wood
We are ants marching
Carving cities through the dirt
Steered by unseen hands
Paul Bluestein
In the Autumn distance,
the spire of a white clapboard church
floats in a Serrat background of leaves.
Lorraine Rose
Chasing the fireflies
eyes wide open at fireworks
nights to remember