Take an Umbrage, Wait by Heikki Huotari

Take an Umbrage, Wait by Heikki Huotari

Art: Lady of Paris by Adam De Ville TAKE AN UMBRIDGE, WAIT About the author: Heikki Huotari is a retired professor of mathematics. In a past century, he attended a one-room country school and spent summers on a forest-fire lookout tower. His poems appear in numerous...
No Heroic Measures by Heikki Huotari

No Heroic Measures by Heikki Huotari

Art: Ora Segalis NO HEROIC MEASURES About the author: Heikki Huotari is a retired professor of mathematics. In a past century, he attended a one-room country school and spent summers on a forest-fire lookout tower. His poems appear in numerous journals, recently in...
Beautiful Drowning In Shawsheen by Thylias Moss

Beautiful Drowning In Shawsheen by Thylias Moss

Art: 5:21pm from 17 photographs in 10 hours, in Chicago, Illinois by Nikola Olic About the author:  Thylias Moss, a self-employed multi-racial “maker”  Thylias Moss Writing LLC, is also Professor Emerita in the Departments of English and Art & Design at the...
Summer Day at Huntington Beach by Laura Weldon

Summer Day at Huntington Beach by Laura Weldon

Art: Mtandao wa Kijani wa Kwaku Ananse by Mick Ó Seasnáin  SUMMER DAY AT HUNTINGTON BEACH I tick with alarm clock worry. My sister is afraid of nothing. Not the dark or death or Jay Preslan down the street who pushes kids in front of cars.   Look at her run into...
Mary’s Moonbeams by Keith Mark Gaboury

Mary’s Moonbeams by Keith Mark Gaboury

Art: from Glow Series by Ken Collins MARY’S MOONBEAMS We steamroll into the bustle, Father and son bedazzled alongside bakers and housewives clamoring for a collective spectacle by ‘The Diving Horse’ show. The animal splashes into a pool as I drop two Buffalo...