Catherine by James Mulhern

Catherine by James Mulhern

Art: Blue Sea by Britnie Walston       Catherine   When Mom and I arrived, you hid the donut behind the picture.You sat in the sunny kitchen, embarrassed that you’d been caught with a sweet.My mother tsk-tsked as you deflected our attention to the...
Tapping Out by Dan Shiffman

Tapping Out by Dan Shiffman

Art: Johnstown Flood by Paul Luikart       Tapping Out   Technically, practice ended five minutes earlier, but every Thursday Coach Ian offered to take on any student, setting aside the Emirates Athletic Conference wrestling rules (and its code of...
What We’ve Left by Holly Day

What We’ve Left by Holly Day

Art: Skrik wakker by Gary Freir     What We’ve Left   In this future we’ve createdall of the butterfly eggs are sterileand the flowers have no scent. This will bethe last season of butterflies in this part of the world. In the overgrown weeds and...
Poems by John Dorroh

Poems by John Dorroh

Art: Landscape in Orange Tones by John Timothy Robinson       The Predicament of Breathlessness, II Since you’ve been gone,I’ve been vaping a void trying to acclimate with-out your skin and breath. The table is bare no matterwhat’s on its surface, and the...
Poems by Bailey Lingen

Poems by Bailey Lingen

Art: Rejection at the altar by Darrell Black       Mixolydian Mixup An Arcadian arcanist,β-cadence marks a serrated betta’s graded circadian;a seance waning, once cicadas serenaded waded in.Sepulcher seas and cemetery streams, stretching seams...
The Singing Tibetan Bowl by Dan A. Cardoza

The Singing Tibetan Bowl by Dan A. Cardoza

Art by Cyril Larvor     Singing Tibetan Bowl We were at the Princeton University Campus, racing to class through the quad. I spotted you ahead on the sidewalk, in your fast lane. You were a bright red Corvette of a man, speeding one hundred and twenty miles...