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Two Poems, by Roy Bentley
Adriana Ivancich and Ernest Hemingway Beside a Stuffed Lion Head I place this circle of stones for the living; May we and others not go beyond it in life; May we all live to a hundred autumns, Driving death away from this heap. … Continue reading
When You're Hungry, You Think of Bread, by Mather Schneider
All of a sudden Noelia wanted a Moringa tree. Moringa trees were the new thing, hot on the internet. You could make tea from the leaves, they would cure what ails you, a miracle plant, like a beanstalk to connect … Continue reading
Jimmy the Baker’s Pocket MFA, poem by Dennis Mahagin
Reading is easy, writing is hard; so we watch a little TV, sourdough loaf, fudge brownie, our very souls becoming human scones, juicy peach cobbler, reluctant steam from pie holes, each to her own nourishing scene, edified, serially and horrifically scarred. Dennis Mahagin is a poet … Continue reading
what i did in the war, poem by Matt Borczon
its hard to explain to civilians that my gun was locked up in an iso container for the whole time I was in Afghanistan that I did not fight this war I worked in a hospital at the craziest point of the war but no I did not fight the war I watched it from the distance … Continue reading
By September, poem by Wendy Carlisle
I’m ready for the casual kindness of fall, ready to work the angles of chill, to close the deal on the first hard frost and wave farewell to the sanguinivors that burrow in- to the skin under my elastic straps and feed on … Continue reading
The Professor and the Rodeo Queen, poem by William Ogden Haynes
College students excel at excuses and before I met the Rattlesnake Queen I thought I had heard them all. She said she would have to miss my class for two days to make some appearances in South Alabama. When I asked what … Continue reading
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Three Poems, by Mary Benson
The Fear of Losing a Crummy Waitressing Job In a dream I’m lifting bus buckets, arms brimming liquid sludge while the credit machine shuts down and the party of seventeen walks out without tipping, and I don’t wake until the fourth alarm. I’m still … Continue reading
Five Poems by Randi Ward
Gate Oh merciful gate, break these legs for me so I don’t have to walk home. Procession Blowing through red lights on our way to the graveyard— death stops for no one. Daisy Pluck a ray from the eye of day; each petal is a flower— tossed away. Old Timer … Continue reading
Tramp On Your Street, essay by the Legendary Jim Parks
Six Shooter Junction – He had a spirit bag masquerading as one of those filmy little white plastic numbers they give you at Wal-Mart to carry small purchases. As the days of the trial wore on, he put his … Continue reading
Whatev, fiction by Misty Skaggs
On prom morning, she was awakened by the croaky sound of Daddy’s decrepit old rooster, over the hill at the barn. Daybreak. Rose had always liked the sound of that word. And the connotations she imagined along with it. She … Continue reading
