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poems by Changming Yuan

[fissuring]   Between two high notes The song gives a crack Long enough To allow me to enter Like a fish jumping back Into the…

Faintless Goats

by Mitchell Grabois The sensei had given her a Buddha name: Moon Pillow, which I thought suited her pretty good, though I can’t explain why, but…

Water Buffalo

by Mitchell Grabois 1. After Tu and I made love, I fell asleep and dreamt I was running along the edge of a swamp. I…

poems by Lana Bella

Words best left unkissed on a dry martini   words best left unkissed on a dry martini, still, I will unlock my door’s latch for the woman who hid behind…

poems by Holly Day

            Grief in Perspective   we drive back from the hospital, and I can’t talk anymore, he wants to talk. I nod my head at…

Man, The New Rat

[fragment from the novel “A Psychop’s Notebook” (in Romanian: “Caietul Psihopatului”), Herg Benet Publishers, 2015] by Ștefan Bolea translated by Ana-Maria Văduva [MTTLC] click pentru versiunea română…

Hopefulness

by Eidolon   come to think of it maybe I was just an unhappy teenage boy in San Francisco being led by my overlarge lawyer’s…

Sanctuary

by Mircea Pricăjan translated by Adrian Bucur [MTTLC] click pentru versiunea română He couldn’t have said that he had a good memory of when he…

poems by A.J. Huffman

I Dream in Breathless   night.  My body smothered in darkness, radiates a solid that should not be. I struggle against invisible ropes more stagnant…