by Galia Admoni | Apr 29, 2022 | Issue #4, Issues
ISpring has re-greened the grey of winter.Pockets of weeds spring up through cracks in pavements.The heat is oppressive for this time of year.Sometimes I walk this street and can’t remember why.Congested bin bags spill their entrails.Ahead, a cat considers an old...
by Byron Wilson | Apr 29, 2022 | Issue #4, Issues
I tiptoe to the livingRoom in wool socksI set out last nightThey muffle stepsBetter than cottonWhile my wife and children sleepOf courseI love my familyBut this dark before dawnThis solitudeThis peace Byron Wilson lives with his wife and three dogs in Oregon and is...
by Bongani Zungu/Singular Poet | Apr 29, 2022 | Issue #4, Issues
The electricity of ears, gnawing.A field finds fur crawled flat byparalyzed tails, by those laidopen; who knew of webbed-feetfear, tinted metallic-red and rodenttrots in the shallows.By bones, broken bare in the bellyborn so old; and lostfor the lust of Chenuzi.The...
by Melissa Owens | Apr 29, 2022 | Issue #4, Issues
We make ourselves better than our parents. We grow up and leave home. We go far away and try to find the places where our parents have never been, and do the things our parents have never done. We travel to countries they never travelled to, and learn...
by Elizabeth Ellson | Apr 29, 2022 | Issue #4, Issues
“How is your heart?”Which, I swear, is a way to say I love you.Reginald Dwayne Betts i have been waiting to write youtill there were words concrete enoughto welcome my hand to writeall day i will stare at wordsand all day i will think of youwhat you would make of...
by Andrew Walker | Apr 29, 2022 | Issue #4, Issues
Onions in butter bubble alone & the kitchen is quiet, starved without your...
