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Thick as thievesPoetry

Thick as thieves

Casey KillingsworthNovember 20, 2019

I wake up one morning and look out the window and there’s no car in the driveway but I’m not going to call this…

RedPoetry

Red

Amanda VillafrancoNovember 17, 2019

like the rug she sat on, memorizing the patterns, avoiding confrontation, she chose laundry: the warm lullabies emanated from the dryer, rocked her in…

Eclogue for Santa IsabelPoetry

Eclogue for Santa Isabel

July WesthaleNovember 15, 2019

Over here, solvent skyline. A virgin in white, on a hill. Simple. How cities seed. Every South American epicenter, but usually a man, a…

The House on Tilden AvenuePoetry

The House on Tilden Avenue

Jose OsegueraNovember 7, 2019

Was a pair of trousers With five pockets: Strewn, wrinkled, gouged Empty when Mom first told us She was leaving it To live with…

A More Perfect UnionPoetry

A More Perfect Union

Andy PosnerNovember 5, 2019

And I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice. I don't want any greatness for it, particularly a…

The Window & Other WorksArt, Poetry, Showcase

The Window & Other Works

Renee ElizabethNovember 1, 2019

The Window Traversing Alone Yearning like a flower looking to tilt its face toward sun, only night clutches the world in loneliness, when neither…

Setting PrecedentPoetry

Setting Precedent

Mike CasettaOctober 31, 2019

The man swallowed 480 ball bearings. One sphere a minute during his last eight-hour shift. No unemployment lines for the human anchor sitting upright…

The Joy of Hurling TrashPoetry

The Joy of Hurling Trash

Susan PetersOctober 27, 2019

Long military coat, snapping blue eyes a flower, pinned on her sleeve, not over her breast where it should have been. Grey hair stuck…

Kaiwah Island/Ocean CoursePoetry

Kaiwah Island/Ocean Course

Dale PattersonOctober 26, 2019

Boulevards of grass barbered in flattops, borders of beach sand and rough. I am here to prove who I am but being a novice…

Rakinewis (The Capestrano Warrior)Poetry

Rakinewis (The Capestrano Warrior)

Marc WoodwardOctober 25, 2019

For the ruination of Palmyra and after P B Shelley His shroud was campion in May; a king's cape of crocus in November. Curled…

SECRETSPoetry

SECRETS

Martina Reisz NewberryOctober 24, 2019

What the stiff breeze and the ocean have to say remains a mystery. Who are we to try to understand the splinters of a…