DOE AND FAWN John Grey It’s twilight,shine hanging on when it can,dark moving in with all the privileges of night. I’m sitting on my porch when I…… Read more “DOE AND FAWN”
Category: 5TH ISSUE
Yarn
Leela Soma She switched the light on. The darkness of the night that had enveloped the room was now in a soft glow. Four am, a few…… Read more “Yarn”
Postpartum Happy
Mileva Anastasiadou What to do with time:You can sleep your time away. Only if obligations permit, only if you’re not the mother of a newborn.Hubby wakes up…… Read more “Postpartum Happy”
Shoreline Of Infinity
Gerard Sarnat Youngest daughter’s baby burning up, during fiddling with old plus kaput thermometers when it would cost nearly nada for almost sci-fi high-tech new ones, first…… Read more “Shoreline Of Infinity”
Just Another Man
Just Another Man Les Wicks My sown grass is wilting before eyes.The window is blamelessany gasp is a guilty pleaI deserve every punishmentthat scowling sun may deliver.…… Read more “Just Another Man”
The Unheard Melodies
Maryam Qureshi Heard Melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter. John Keats New experiences, new challenges, strange thoughts and sometimes an interaction with a stranger goes…… Read more “The Unheard Melodies”
Bone Density
Bone DensityLes Wicks Bone Density I am becoming boredwith my pedestrian psychiatric disorders.They are intellectual bunions,a mild arthritis of the mind& common as life. A dollar-store desperadomost…… Read more “Bone Density”
Sing Me a River
Steve Carr Pa had worn that old gray coat until it was almost nothing but a rag that hung on his big frame. It smelled of rancid…… Read more “Sing Me a River”
Satsuma
Satsuma Kara Goughnour Kara Goughnour is a queer writer and documentarian living in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is the 2018 winner of the Gerald Stern Poetry Award and…… Read more “Satsuma”
Messages from 1986
Alicia Aitken ‘Susan woz ‘ere ’86 Xx’ is drawn in faded green marker across the naked wall. The summer of 1986 mum let us have a small…… Read more “Messages from 1986”
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