Topo and Tectonics: A Sonnet by Joseph Johnson

Topo and Tectonics: A Sonnet by Joseph Johnson

Untitled by John Gregory Brown       TOPO   The snow fell, melted, fell again. In the meadow, a blendingof relief. No more of us can safely fit & the weather intendsfor changing. Inland, the weasel. Colorlessskipping across the drifts. Branches...
Weather Report by John F. Buckley

Weather Report by John F. Buckley

WEATHER REPORT Life in a fogbank isn’t so wrong. Picture stray fingerlike tendrils caressing the wisps of your hair, weaving the nest of a possible damp, gentle bird. Life in the gray and unfocused, rendered vague shades of art-school cinematography, leaves every edge...
Dream Blue by Joan McNerney

Dream Blue by Joan McNerney

Art: What We Don’t See by Jimmy McHugh       Dream Blue   Deep blue midnight blue.Once in a blue moon. Driving a long blue vanthrough a deep blue sea. The steering wheel popsout in my hand, this longblue van crashing crashing. Cold cold...
Poems by Gloria g. Murray

Poems by Gloria g. Murray

Bioluminescence by Alex & Christy Ramirez       What I Want   look,I will tell you tell you like it really is—I want to see your eyes go round ‘n’ roundin circles of astonishmentI want to hear you shout: O my lord!O my god! yes! yes! yes! like...
Poems by Louis Gallo

Poems by Louis Gallo

      IDENTITY   The entire past up for grabs! Who are we but our memories of the past? Yet the “experts” tell us that what we think We remember about our pasts is fantastical, Mostly untrue, mostly false, mostly invented As we grope along...
Straight-Up by Timothy Resau

Straight-Up by Timothy Resau

Algae on Turning Water by Leni Paquet-Morante   STRAIGHT-UP   Broken and can’t be fixed—like chronically late:— Stuck in-a-traffic jam …you may say.Or:— Just one more before we leave,— A roadie, as they say.And since one’s never enough,when is enough...