While Driving by Jennifer Coates

While Driving by Jennifer Coates

While Driving In a flash that comes to you on this very gray day as you drive to pick up your daughter, whom you love more than anything on this earth, you sense in your marrow with a thud —that any moment, you could lose those you love, those who give your life...
February by Matt Stevenson

February by Matt Stevenson

February   Many of our life giving rituals are deeply private, whether repeated daily or annually, they gift us some sort of solace. A good snow crunching walk late at night seems to do it for me. If I could, preferably down the old train tracks stretching...
The Crushing of Cotton Butterflies by Carol Stewart

The Crushing of Cotton Butterflies by Carol Stewart

Art: Ekaterina Shamilova (Model: Marie Dashkova) THE CRUSHING OF COTTON BUTTERFLIES The bed smells of potted meat – and us – last night’s bland feast. You’re eyeing the jar even now, scrolling news-feed on your laptop, hard edge digging into my...
Juniper Night: Four Poems by Cordelia Hanemann

Juniper Night: Four Poems by Cordelia Hanemann

Art by Marie Dashkova JUNIPER NIGHT: FOUR POEMS [su_row class=””] [su_column size=”1/2″ center=”no” class=””] lone juniper dark itself spooked by scant light carving the barely gnarled trunk thrusting upward twisted into...