Category: Published Issues
Those Prostitutes in Cuba
by Mary O’Donnell for J S They were like two kittens, he said, snuggling up to him, they were fun and they liked him. I thought —
comfort station
by normal “in the wind time walks” — Nanao Sakaki 1 i am building soft nets for death by
in the loved & tortured eyes
by normal “in defeat there are no prophets and no magicians only the look in the loved and tortured eyes”
remembering janis
by normal her pain devil ran so deep, her song was just an exorcism in blues maybe the boys back in port arthur were as she said, that
Some lines for Amy Winehouse (in the rain)
by Gerald McCarthy The first time I heard Mary Wells sing The one who really loves you — I was eighteen in a place called Tam Ky where it rained
Definitions for an election year
by Gerald McCarthy Grief was the name of your friends’ dog — a black Labrador that ran off along the shore of Lake Michigan, the summer you
Winter Simple
by Elizabeth Tibbetts So this is my winter life at night tucked in bed alone with a book of poems and a magazine (my secret vice) that professes
Matter
by Elizabeth Tibbetts If I didn’t walk these grass paths, fit my fingers to the stones to trace names and dates, births and deaths, if I didn’t
The Bear
by Elizabeth Tibbetts It’s a hot May day at the graveyard: enough breeze to keep black flies away, leaves sunning their green naked selves, an
Everything Looks Perfect
by Elizabeth Tibbetts Our guide holds a telescope thick as a man’s arm as she scans the bay for signs of a finback’s spout or the black back of a