March 23rd Darkness, cold and water, the rain of the trenches of the bay, the shriveled fighter has lost a foot. Babakh gats there is an echo in the field, nature in winter hibernation, without flowers, everything is empty, everything dead, and not alive. Spring did not enter into rights having adoring spring never wait for […]
Read more "A VOICE FROM UKRAINE – Vyacheslav Konoval – 3 POEMS"WENT TO WORK FOR LUNCH I went into work today & laughed as, for Once, everyone was pleased to see me. “Ah Brad,” one of them said, “it’s always Good to see you as that means my shift Is almost over!” “Yeah,” I replied, “the only problem is I Ain’t working today & do you […]
Read more "Bradford Middleton – WENT TO WORK FOR LUNCH"Better The sky? Blue. Has to be blue. That’s what she wants. A blue-sky postcard. Okay. Found it. “Dear Elaine,” she writes. “So this morning. Pumping gas at Speedway. There I am. The rain is gone. (Can we all sing hallelujah?) Nothing but blue skies. The bluest of blue. Truly. And a warm breeze. That […]
Read more "LAURA STAMPS – BETTER"Traffic Accident When I ask the copto let me know howthe truck driversitting by the sideof the road is doing,he tells me,“He saw their faces.” ~~~ find more Jimmy Pappas on Rattle
Read more "Jimmy Pappas – Traffic Accident"Born in the Year of the Snake I’m a snake with an office. It’s my hole. There I call many businesses to sell lots of oil. I have a pint-sized cactus with a pot and a filthy desk. I slide off at five. I’ve been devious and cold-blooded. I faked my charges for a trip […]
Read more "Sarah Henry – Born in the Year of the Snake"“SOMETIMES THEY HIT ME” Sometimes they hit meand it feels goodwhen you knowthere’s no malice,and there’s even sometenderness.You feel safealthough itstill hurts.
Read more "Eugen Spierer – “Sometimes They Hit Me”"My Dejected Catholic Upbringing The earth contains a hundred trillion terabytes, which is a quarter of a God. Which seems low given my dejected Catholic upbringing. Sorry, in my clogged thoughts I forgot you were listening. It is beyond me to forget myself. There is light on the other side. I can see it in […]
Read more "James Croal Jackson – Dejected Catholic Upbringing"Pleasure We have gone too far already. Our life is a mine shaft that we dig in hopes of finding treasure, exploiting every vein of our bodies, excavating the vestiges of our flesh in the hopes of making it cash. The canary isn’t singing anymore. The mountain is caving in. And in the dark you […]
Read more "Daniel Schulz – Pleasure"extinguished when she leaves againI’m left to admire herdeparting figure, the wayher country/western shirtclings to her slender back.I count the tarnishedsilver socketslacking rhinestones likedead stars sequesteredin the Persephoneconstellation.an affair definedby absence. ~ union station, Nashville of course, it takes me onlyfive minutes to get readyfreeing me to linger nearthe doorway of the bathroomwitnessing Sera’s ritual,her […]
Read more "Karl Koweski – 3 POEMS"Heat Lightning Is just normal lightning That’s too far away For the rain and thunder To reach. I always thought It was a magical kind of summer storm: All the marvelous light with None of the dreary consequences. I was just as disappointed to learn That shooting stars are also a misnomer. They’re just fast […]
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