Stan Galloway’s most recent poem to appear here was FWB (November 2012). The Piano Promise By Stan Galloway The piano in the hotel meeting roomcaught your whim andyou veered to iton our way out to the beach. You sat and tappeda halting Chopsticksthen invited me to join. I said I’d never learned,and so we started out again,while […]
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Love Poem From SFO
Colin Dodds’ poem Los Angeles During the Fires appeared here in January 2013. Love Poem From SFO By Colin Dodds I’m not the first manto follow a red convertibleinto debt,or the first to flyout of San Franciscowith soy sauce on his shirt. But I’m the onedoing it right now. Beyond the too-appraisablescenarios of lifeis the immediate, ultimately […]
Renewing Autumn’s Breath
Smita Anand Sriwastav is an MBBS doctor with a passion for poetry and literature. She has always expressed her innermost thoughts and sentiments through poetry. Nature has been an influential force upon her writing. She has published 2 books of poetry and her work has appeared journals such as Rusty Nail, Pyrokinection, Jellyfish Whispers, eFiction India, […]
Progression-Free Survival
Juliana Norwood’s poem Wait appeared here in December 2012. Progression-Free Survival By Juliana Norwood you spin the same storieschanging the details, red hair,blue eyes, street corners, as if those alterationscould mask thetruthwhich is:you do not liveon my skinyou are nota scar nora smilemy blood doesnot rise toyour call sing yoursame songfor a new nameas loudas youlike there area thousandways of stalkingand […]
The Return
Terribly bored on hot summer Sunday in 1996, Jeffrey L Williams played (and lost) a video game, unsuccessfully rearranged his bedroom, and stumbled upon an episode of Golden Girls in which Blanche decides to become “a great Southern writer.” By the end of that 2-part episode, he was writing what would become his first short […]
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