Ministration by William Bonfiglio

Ministration by William Bonfiglio

by | Oct 4, 2019 | Poetry

Ministration   Take a fingertip of fire to a thread of magnesium and watch the messiah himself spring from the coil   brighter than any welder’s torch that fuses a seam between the arm and body of a tin man army not yet buried with its emperor but standing...
Equilibrium by J.L. Moultrie

Equilibrium by J.L. Moultrie

by | Oct 2, 2019 | Poetry

Equilibrium   A flower against the harsh inertia bathing in Hades’ dim light uncaring motion, as transformation dwindles spoons of sun, with eager drip an exquisite undertaking, falling with all the weight of your limbs   It is risky to be a human being it...
Ohio by Charles Kell

Ohio by Charles Kell

by | Sep 25, 2019 | Poetry

Ohio Drinking red wine in a peeling canoe, land-bound, by the drained swimming pool. The leaves watched as we turned to run. Our plan was to break the glass, take the fancy heirloom. You talked me down with a shy glance. Later, we huddled in the flooded basement,...
THE WAY OF ALL : AN ABECEDARIAN by Carolyn Guinzio

THE WAY OF ALL : AN ABECEDARIAN by Carolyn Guinzio

by | Sep 20, 2019 | Poetry

THE WAY OF ALL : AN ABECEDARIAN April is not about you, grasshopper. Bear your soul in a month more claustrophobic, when you’re shut up, defeated by weeks of winter skies— egg-colored—not Easter-egg-colored. Fires in bleak pre-dawn hearths glow from the...