Do-It-Yourself by Jonathan Odell

Do-It-Yourself by Jonathan Odell

Art: Ghost Rain by Briarwood Bohemian   Do-It-Yourself   Death came for my mother three times, and twice she refused to go. It was dangerous to underestimate how fierce she could be. Lying just below that sweet powdered veneer was a wounded animal ready to...
Poems by Kathleen Hellen

Poems by Kathleen Hellen

Art: Ocean Therapy by Christy Mandeville   no small affair that wrings with injured hands to mere the accusations after ee cummings   I wrecked the rain that wrecks intent, slipping out from under somewhere terribly deficient, I wept and wept beyond that...
Little Boy Lost, Old Man Found by Warren Wright

Little Boy Lost, Old Man Found by Warren Wright

Art: Cotter Bridge, courtesy of Thurman J. Williams of Cotter, Arkansas   Little Boy Lost, Old Man Found   I was born March 21st, 1942, in Mountain Home, Arkansas, the first child of Ernie Edward Wright and Alice Erlene Collins, who was always called Aline...
Poems by Lauren K. Watel

Poems by Lauren K. Watel

Art: Winter Sky On A Shallow by Léni Paquet-Morante       Because the Sign Was Missing   Because the sign was missing, we missed the turn and had to turn back, back to a narrow dirtroad veering blindly into thickset woods, and as we went, plunging...