Country Life by John L. Stanizzi

Country Life by John L. Stanizzi

Art: Untitled by Robert Ferrier, @Dante_Dreamer COUNTRY LIFE November wind crazed raging boattailed railer bellows through the trails   and then rain – nearly black for two days straight   iridescence vanished branches’ genuflection gems lost until the next...
Doxology by Heikki Huotari

Doxology by Heikki Huotari

Art: Untitled by Cyril Larvor DOXOLOGY About the author:  Heikki Huotari is a retired professor of mathematics. In a past century, he attended a one-room country school and spent summers on a forest-fire lookout tower. His poems appear in numerous journals, recently...
Take an Umbrage, Wait by Heikki Huotari

Take an Umbrage, Wait by Heikki Huotari

Art: Lady of Paris by Adam De Ville TAKE AN UMBRIDGE, WAIT About the author: Heikki Huotari is a retired professor of mathematics. In a past century, he attended a one-room country school and spent summers on a forest-fire lookout tower. His poems appear in numerous...
No Heroic Measures by Heikki Huotari

No Heroic Measures by Heikki Huotari

Art: Ora Segalis NO HEROIC MEASURES About the author: Heikki Huotari is a retired professor of mathematics. In a past century, he attended a one-room country school and spent summers on a forest-fire lookout tower. His poems appear in numerous journals, recently in...
Beautiful Drowning In Shawsheen by Thylias Moss

Beautiful Drowning In Shawsheen by Thylias Moss

Art: 5:21pm from 17 photographs in 10 hours, in Chicago, Illinois by Nikola Olic About the author:  Thylias Moss, a self-employed multi-racial “maker”  Thylias Moss Writing LLC, is also Professor Emerita in the Departments of English and Art & Design at the...
Summer Day at Huntington Beach by Laura Weldon

Summer Day at Huntington Beach by Laura Weldon

Art: Mtandao wa Kijani wa Kwaku Ananse by Mick Ó Seasnáin  SUMMER DAY AT HUNTINGTON BEACH I tick with alarm clock worry. My sister is afraid of nothing. Not the dark or death or Jay Preslan down the street who pushes kids in front of cars.   Look at her run into...