ISSUE #4
FEATURED WRITER
Sally Keith
Far and Away
Upstairs in the café, which once had a long bar with stools, where you could plug in your computer and work…
Hannah Silverstein
Hansel and Gretel
In the real story, they never return.
No one knows what happens to them,
So life goes on, ordinary, flesh
long since grown over the wound…
Perry Janes
Shooter
There are things I don’t know,
can’t know, and maybe don’t want to,
including what a man’s teeth look like
through a rifle’s magnifying scope….
Reed Turchi
What I wanted to tell you but can’t here
in front of everyone is that sometimes
it’s just me & the bartender & four hours
to fill & I take a nice long look out
at no one & turn up louder & louder…
Michael A. de Armas
The Switch
Yes it’s true you can break things,
I tell my younger daughter one night, who, after crying in her crib in our room
without much result, turns the light switch…
Amber Ridenour Walker
Breathless
(for Jean Seberg)
If you love a girl just maybe
you shouldn’t steal a car
for her. It’s bad manners &
just what am I supposed to do with this?
Alina Stefanescu
Among the Lichenologists
Among the lichenologists,
I am less provocative than
mottled pink fluff on a rock…
J. Estanislao Lopez
Reconsidering Plato’s Cave
My opinion?
Plato never
set foot
inside a cave…
Helena Minton
1957
Mallarme, synonym for obstacle
in their suburban saltbox, his poems
a wooden crate for her mother
to kick her way out of…
Suzanne McGowan
Advice to a Lazy Poet on How to Survive Autumn
Wake up and run, you sloven with sleep-filled eyes!
Constrict the hillside into a tawny gold
And shout huzzah non-stop ‘till the season dies….
Lizzy Beck
Two Chairs
Beside the health center you saw two chairs:
wooden, solid, placed
just so, as in a draftsman’s rendering…
Nina Avedon
In Search of Lost Timepiece
Should I have buried
you with it?
Slipped it into the pocket
of the suit from Barneys