Simon Perchik’s most recent poem to appear here was “these dead still need pills” (October 2019). These piles hold back :each finger embraced the way darkness covers a sky no longer needed and what you breathe out stays black till it cools closes and overhead the dirt shades you though clouds left in the open […]
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Asunción—The Lido Bar
John Anthony Fingleton’s most recent poem to appear here was “Shadow Child” (October 2019). Asunción—The Lido Bar By John Anthony Fingleton It’s a hazy day in Paraguay, Which sometimes the rain obliterates, Still there are traders selling chipas on the streets. A young black haired Guaraní girl, With a tray of Brazilian chocolate bars Balanced […]
When the Bough Breaks
Leah Stenson’s most recent poem to appear here was “Spa” (October 2019). When the Bough Breaks By Leah Stenson The neighbor’s bull trespassed, used our Japanese maple as a scratching post and broke some branches, so we dug up the damaged tree, and planted another, more perfectly shaped. You’re out in the yard in the […]
Not Four
J.B. Hogan’s most recent poem to appear here was “Buttered Concrete” (August 2019). Not Four By J.B. Hogan Three is all you get, four too many to expect, yet for a time all too brief it seemed like a maybe—maybe because she was in the crowd that afternoon, and later by her car and at […]
Seashells
Bethany Caswell lives and writes in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Seashells By Bethany Caswell Tiny shipwrecked treasures tossed carelessly on the shoreline. Waiting. With weight unknown, she plies the sandy way. With a slight crunch it is done. Tread lightly for you never know, if it could be someone’s favorite
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