My Country Tis by Rochelle Jewel Shapiro

My Country Tis by Rochelle Jewel Shapiro

Art: War by Karen Nielsen, @karennielsen13 MY COUNTRY TIS You are the diners of the ’20s, pre-fab, fit into railroad cars or trucks, parked on any street of you, America. You are the glass carousels of cakes, the Napoleons leaking custard, the Boston creams of...
A Crisis of Faith by M. Stone

A Crisis of Faith by M. Stone

Art: Fabrice Poussin A CRISIS OF FAITH A woman shall be silent in church. She shall be submissive to her husband. Her skirt shall be no more than two inches above the knee.   We girls stood in neat rows and held sour lemon drops of shame on our tongues. At day’s...
Spring by Karol Nielsen

Spring by Karol Nielsen

Art: Fish in Open Currents by Tobias Oggenfuss SPRING Spring is a tomboy all done up, an amazon and a unicorn intertwined, the reward after winter’s test, a fragile beauty in the end. About the author:  Karol Nielsen is author of the memoir, Black Elephants (Bison...
An Insect’s Dream of Honest Concrete by Miles Varana

An Insect’s Dream of Honest Concrete by Miles Varana

Art: Journey Within by Carolyn O’Neill, @carolynoneillartist AN INSECT’S DREAM OF HONEST CONCRETE So often there are blocks that give way to the arachnidian spires of wind-up basilicas and stretchered nuns who cry out pantomime Italian, Questo è tutto per...
A Series of Poems by alexcintron

A Series of Poems by alexcintron

Art: État de transe sur Champs-Élysées, Publicis Drugstore, Paris 8 by Bore’ Ivanoff A SERIES OF POEMS I an earth that is not ours grows with no hair and requires a wig made of refrigerators to keep cool when the sun misses its curling iron if we beg for more...
#101: Union Card by Robert Lane Wilder

#101: Union Card by Robert Lane Wilder

Art: IKEA Painting 7 by Alan Neider, @aneider52 #101: UNION CARD Quirky poets work this way connect point B to point A positing a perfect ineluctable poignance   Nestling into handsome line a bird’s eye view of human kind   So unfair this doesn’t pay card...