Mary Ann Dimand’s most recent poem to appear here was “A Matter of Gravity” (August 2018). Beneath Contempt By Mary Ann Dimand There they go, the gay destroyers, laughing and prancing, flicking skirt fringe and sharp nails into pain-dimmed eyes. Crawling in my muck, I bend again to comb the soil. Some of the seedlings […]
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Please don’t understand
Lou Pugliese’s most recent poem to appear here was “For someone, maybe” (May 2014). Please don’t understand By Lou Pugliese Perhaps you share my addiction We’d never speak of it if you did It’s at peace for me today having been recently fed It’s diet of rotten flesh and broken dreams I know: “you’re as […]
A Wooded Pathway
Rojane Jasper’s most recent poem to appear here was “I Remember . . . ” (May 2018). A Wooded Pathway By Rojane Jasper Walking along a wooded pathway I come across a wintery thicket, An undergrowth of leafless stems, There a flurry of robins Flitter through the branches And so, To carry to me Their […]
Where the Acorn Fell
Rajani Radhakrishnan is a poet from Bangalore, India, whose poems also have appeared in the Ekphrastic Review, The Lake, Quiet Letter, and The Calamus Journal. Where the Acorn Fell By Rajani Radhakrishnan I wondered if she had wild eyes and stole silk sarees from the old dhobi ghat, showing up demure and alluring at the upper […]
The Casualty
Peyton Davis is publishing here for the first time. The Casualty By Peyton Davis They were fighting again. The house seemed to stand on edge—perched on a precipice, its stillness the only thing that kept it from hurtling into oblivion. The walls seemed to rumble echoing the shouts between a lying man and a woman […]
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