FEATURED WRITER
Marianne Boruch
Genius Light Running Through Us
The simple kind that comes through a window, Tom Edison
still doing his power naps to reproduce it,
a hobby the Dead are heir to, certain special Dead
who invented the modern world….
Pablo Medina
Reasons of Dark
Living like I did,
eating what I could,
a can of beans, a loaf of bread,
I came to know…
Robin Rosen Chang
Apple
What if they’d never touched it,
never wanted to disturb the bees
swarming the orchard,
sticky before pollinating…
Vida Kazemi
Erosion
How shall I put it in words
when words recede and disappear
like dreams, rendering fruitless
my efforts?…
Kathleen Aguero
My Better Self
My better self makes excuses for me:
I don’t know what’s got into her. She’s not usually like this.
When I’m bored by some slow dinner story
my better self says, Please pass the peas…
Lisa Zerkle
Again, The Spider
slings her lines
pins one end
to ink weed
the other to angel’s trumpet
again she fixes
what she’s already fixed
Christopher Jane Corkery
The Siren
The “thing-ness” of your poems impressed me.
By that I mean that many were the nouns
and that, among them, it seemed most were concrete
(unlike the previous line) and colorful, or colored…
Sebastian Merrill
Persephone & Cerberus
I always wanted a dog, but
I never expected this one:
hound of Hades, three heads…
Pui Ying Wong
Snow White Signs the Do-Not-Resuscitate Order
I cannot stop you from saving a life, even mine.
In the early hour of hustle and flow
you smell of aftershave…
Jim Henle
In a time of foreclosure
through a fissure in workspace
a dark rake of clouds across the sky
a nation is a vibrant collage of steel
and glass encampments like upended…
Daniela Molnar
WEB 13/Another Heat Wave
leafblower lawnmower motoring heat living dying loud
in my city
this is normal in my city this is normal
Cynthia Dewi Oka
For My Father Who Once Rubbed Shoe Polish Over His Bald Head
She said not to say anything, because it gave you hope, which
reminds me, here is the world
you cannot enter. Though you brought us, against…