Let it Come to You by Alison Prine

Let it Come to You by Alison Prine

Art: Nancy Shuler LET IT COME TO YOU Don’t coax. Don’t lurch forward, don’t throw logs across to reach it – it will disperse. Let it come like rain against your skin. Like a dog with a broken chain. Like wrappers tangled in the grass after spring’s first thaw. Don’t...
Sphere by John L. Stanizzi

Sphere by John L. Stanizzi

Art: Guilherme Bergamini SPHERE The only cats worth anything are the cats that take chances.                                                             -Thelonious Monk     this discord is alien a dervish whirling and salient   If somebody else did...
Rear View Mirror by John L. Stanizzi

Rear View Mirror by John L. Stanizzi

Art: Walid Sad REAR VIEW MIRROR About the author: John L. Stanizzi is author of the full-length collections – Ecstasy Among Ghosts, Sleepwalking, Dance Against the Wall, After the Bell, Hallelujah Time!, High Tide – Ebb Tide, and Chants.  His poems have appeared in...
Disclosure by John L. Stanizzi

Disclosure by John L. Stanizzi

Art: Guilherme Bergamini DISCLOSURE About the author: John L. Stanizzi is author of the full-length collections – Ecstasy Among Ghosts, Sleepwalking, Dance Against the Wall, After the Bell, Hallelujah Time!, High Tide – Ebb Tide, and Chants.  His poems have appeared...
Mother Russia by Rochelle Jewel Shapiro

Mother Russia by Rochelle Jewel Shapiro

Art: Guilherme Bergamini MOTHER RUSSIA She keeps you shut inside her. In her wooden womb, you grow smaller, smaller. Your ears are sealed beneath a babushka. You sit woodenly through winter, your cheeks wind-burnt red circles. Your mouth, it never opens. Nyet to...