marking off
By Ed Higgins -- the calendar above my desk as usual at least a week behind lining through past days like wisps of breath ...
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Apr 281 min read
March Comes In Like A Lion
By Gerard Sarnat -- Fingers Are Crossed Until Spring Vacation Soon Among their mosaics of tattoos piercings plus unopened books scattered...
Apr 281 min read
Leaving Night
By Ed Higgins -- Sometimes in the middle of the night awake under a panoply as mordant as Doré illustrating Dante spelunking to the dark...
Apr 281 min read
HAIGHT STREET ENCOUNTER
By Jeffrey Zable -- Walking along a side street I see this woman up ahead lying against a wall, surrounded by garbage: milk cartons,...
Apr 281 min read
SOME MORE SAD NEWS
By Jeffrey Zable -- Yesterday I received an e-mail from a friend who I grew up with, is the same age as me, and who went to the same high...
Apr 281 min read
Enlighten
By Jesse Campos -- Waking up has always been a blessing It's a wonderful reality A reality that's almost inescapable By almost...
Apr 281 min read
Grass Music
By Diane Webster -- A field of brown grass sways in the wind; many girl concert-goers near swoon close to the rock-star singer. Final...
Apr 281 min read
Spiced Ego Soup
By Keiraj M. Gillis [Winner: 1st Place] -- I popped the cork on my ego and splashed it into a tomato-thyme bouillon to accompany some...
Apr 281 min read
Death March
By Robert Beveridge -- It's that thread thing, ya know, it's like I can see wells of history rising behind me, or some shit like that....
Apr 281 min read
Coughing Up the Climate
By William Doreski [Winner: 2nd Place] -- The cold in my head is the climate. Glaciers puddle at my feet. The sea-rise troubles my...
Apr 281 min read
Bully
By Corey Mesler -- He took me into the woods. My home seemed far away. He took me into the woods and tied me to a tree. I was small and...
Apr 281 min read
Bridge Musings
By Diane Webster -- I want to be an old wooden bridge with slats missing, broken in dangling pairs in mid-air dive suspension. I want to...
Apr 281 min read
Stepping on stepping off
By Karen Wolf -- on either side of the colon, where numbers dictate. A cardinal feeds when empty, predators far. Red numerals slash more...
Apr 281 min read
Yellow
By Karen Wolf -- flashes, smoke clouds, head slamming commotion, bark chips---Tecumseh fears bad medicine of British rolling guns...
Apr 281 min read
Onward
By Karen Wolf -- A thin ribbon of confidence pushes away a shadow cast by the wood-slatted barn; Sweet heart, your mama…died, didn’t make...
Apr 281 min read
Family Gathering
By Karen Wolf -- I watch for the missing thread woven through the tapestry of your, I parred the first hole…, so I can fill that space...
Apr 281 min read
Air Connections
By Karen Wolf -- My upside-down soul floats through a snow bound field past barn boards that lean into river’s jettisoned bargains...
Apr 281 min read
Aftermath (1987)
By Bruce Gunther -- I wake up booze dizzy in the backseat of my car that straddles yellow lines of a bar parking lot in Freeland. I...
Apr 281 min read
A House And A Home
By John Grey -- A young married couple move into a house. It suddenly becomes a home. But then they break up and the home reverts to...
Apr 271 min read
The Color
By Juanita Rey [Winner: 3rd Place] -- When you see me flush my birth control pills down the toilet, then you can be concerned. Or if I...
Apr 301 min read
Tending
By Janet Childs -- When I reach deep into those moments when we gift our energy; It fills the light with room to take a step forward into...
Apr 301 min read
Membrane
By Janet Childs -- The delicate membrane of this loving bond can be rent in a moment: an angry word a vicious retaliation a painful...
Apr 287 min read
VIKTOR’S VIOLIN
By Dan Keeble -- The cracked wind-weathered fingers of Viktor’s left hand swung the time-worn violin under his jaw. The bristles on his...
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