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...
Poems by Robert Focht

Poems by Robert Focht

Untitled by John Gregory Brown     After the Troubadour   We play like children scribbling chalk;vibrant pastel glyphs vanish in afternoonrain. I was unopened, a letterfull of news waiting formy seal to be slit, a bedtime story pressedlike the scent of...
The Last Born in Volatility by KG Newman

The Last Born in Volatility by KG Newman

Art: Foundwork by Zachary McRae   The Last Born in Volatility   I cut my knuckledisassembling his criband sadness rushed meand all my indecisions,this being the lastof the baby stuffstacking up in the garage. Days later, wife’s questionstill unanswered, I...