poems by Babitha Marina Justin
Flamingo Dance
poems by Joel Schueler
Homage to the Lark The dark rims of his glasses support the magnification of a world of darkness all his own. If I crawl to the vacant church falling emptily from love lost, a loneliness less empty commences per the congregated silences to have fallen through the years. Voices in a sacral act echoing a […]
Not Yet
by Thomas Elson I had driven through the bleached and battered downtown. Across the railroad tracks – once six tracks wide, now two, then the highway – once two-lanes, now four, and entered a neighborhood unseen in over fifty years. The town’s familiar acrid and mossy odors crept through the car vent. Not much […]
I Am an Engine
by Harris Coverley I am an engine White with heat Pistons lubed
My Fading Time (Millennium Threnody)
by Oliviu Crâznic Le-Fin-de-Siècle of my youth: The boys were cool, the girls were hot; “We live in freedom” was the rule – It was my time, and now it`s not.
Gandhara
by Larry Smith The sculptor who accompanied Alexander the Great to the Peshawar basin muses on the triumph of the Hellenes… . Undid the Aspasioi undid the Assakenoi undid other Assakenoi at Aornos undid the Asanenoi at Attock
1970
by DC Diamondopolous Drunk and stoned, Scott staggered out the door of the Whiskey a Go Go and into the night. A blurred neon sign from the Sunset Strip flickered and shuddered through the ebb-and-flow haze that hovered from his high. The notice to appear before the local draft board was crumpled deep in the […]
poems by Hibah Shabkhez
Under the Skin Would I fain not peel these subterfuges Neatly, like a banana’s yellow shell Off these your eyes locked in a forced slumber?
poems by Robert Beveridge
Last Night We curled around one another and let the night drift in through the window and wash over us
poems by Jennifer Cahill
The Warble The warble, round like the earth and its sky, land colors