3 POEMS BY Christopher Barnes

KATHE KRUSE STELLA DOLL, VERIFIES NO U-TURN Hitler Youth master tutors municipal college. A pantomime of liberalism outrages. Baader-Mienhoff deliver her flesh-and-blood vocation. Pogo stick with Luger, disinfects classroom. ~~~ BUCKAROO! TENSES Flags ripple. Argentina’s Consulate is imposing, pompous. Nail bomb serene in rear hooves anticipates kick. Prairie Fire counterfeit sightseeing. National anthem goes unsung. […]

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3 lost poems by TIM STALEY

THE TAKE OUT I paddle the kayaks back to the boathouse.  First the sea yak with it’s great tracking Then the little yellow one for children And finally the two small blue ones Good for racing because they’re equally handicapped.  Now the sailboat’s just a dingly, I lost the sail when i capsized.  I swim […]

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Em Seely-Katz ~ ERIC

Eric I’m sorry,  But how can I be honest  When you’ve made me so rich  By leaving forever? I think of you bald  And feeling sexy, almost dead  In Oaxaca, I think you knew  You were being killed as it happened.  What has it ever gotten us,  Acting brave, half-cans of Estrella  Lined up neatly […]

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5 poems by Nicholas Viglietti 

Brave Glares in the Midnight Air  Life takes guts.   So does taking yourself out.   I ain’t got that mettle.   Built for the rut,   And I got scores to settle.  ~~~ Notes of Harmonica Played on the Spirit  Chaos is just another term for life.   The music of our existence.   The tempo of our madness.   We play the groove of […]

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5 POEMS By Carol Coven Grannick

BECAUSE WE DON’T WALK ON RED ANYMORE A small skunk is dead in the intersection  of the busy road, intestines swirled in a tiny pile, a slash of vermilion stabbing through its stripes fluttering in the spring breeze  cars from one direction zooming over and past. I couldn’t begin our walk, watching car after car  […]

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