Poetry Itinerary by Justin Evans Ode to an Egret by John Grey Making Saving Throws by James Engelhardt Fiction On Yellowjacket Lake by Dylan Thompson The Properties of Water by Lauren Harr Spring Gallery 2025
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The Sunflowers
by Margaret McGowan after Tyler Raso The tamper-evident waterFalls onto the floor. We needGaloshes. We need a pitchfork.We need conjugation. M says he will not sleep tonightBecause the fire hydrants wrappedAround the house will give him Nightmares. The water continues to fall.There are puddles in the kitchen. The onlyWay to remedy this is to make…
The Wages of Death
by George Uriah Everywhere he went in Nashville, Joe felt the presence of ghosts. He swore he could almost hear their voices, which sounded something like a whispered opera chorus, though something tragic or sinister, something in a minor key, like the devils of the underworld were coming to pull him down. At best, this…
Volume 1, Issue #9
Poetry The Sunflowers by Margaret McGowan The Glory of the Pilot by Barbara A Meier Fiction The Wages of Death by George Uriah The Return by John Power Spring Gallery 2025
The Glory of the Pilot
by Barbara A Meier My shadow, crowned with a glory,bending the waves of lightat the tops of mountains,where they catch the rays in their gnarly teeth,spitting them out to bounce around peaks.I am the pilot surfing my life throughthe wave tunnels where I am refracted,and redistributed, till my body visible,fingers cold in the night,grasp the…
Volume 1, Issue #8
Poetry The Grace of Roses by Sakariyahu Abdulwasi’h Never More Beautiful by R.T. Castleberry Fiction One of These Days by Marco Etheridge The Top Drawer by Peter Conrad Winter Gallery 2024
The Grace of Roses
by Sakariyahu Abdulwasi’h the season i started growing roses in my father’s garden, i knewI’d bedded a threat for other plants to sprout callouslylike a summer monsoon. for i knewthe grace of roses is a burden to the entire orchard.i would go to the garden, sip the throatof the roses & the cosmopolitan it’s turning…
Never More Beautiful
by R.T. Castleberry Rain has shifted west to east,flooding barrio ditches,potholes of patched streets.Wind tears at fuel station signage,jungle gym park, bus stop plexiglass.My wife dozes on sofa pillows,stilettos off, Drambuie glass drained.Her request, benignly drunken,is an action I can’t complete.On our first night,she unhooked her bra, saying,“I guess the date part ofour evening is…
One of These Days
by Marco Etheridge He sits at the kitchen table staring at a triangle of toast held between his fingers and then beyond, through a blurred field of vision, to his wife across the table. Just the two of them and no sound save their breathing and the tick-tock passing of time. He drops the toast…
Volume 1, Issue #7
Poetry Bobolinko Walks Behind by Kenneth Pobo Hegelian Wounds by J. Peter Progar Fiction Ancestral Burden by John Abbott In Our Midst by Kim Farleigh Winter Gallery 2024