Category: Published Issues
Reading Your Way into the Ocean of a Book
by Hope Coulter For the first few lines of a book you’re aware of the text, the black on cream, the building of sentences out of words. The
Before Arriving
by Sally Molini Walking to my friends’ place, I know the evening will be a series of stock visuals: Humberto tossing salad, me slicing bread
Dirty Snow
by Renée Hearrin The cedar cape drips its milk-white mask, quaint boucléd roof and icicle lace, patchy wet windows, porch and walk to muddled
Take To Water
by Renée Hearrin Wilted in the heat, the limp ray petals of a Shasta daisy hang in defeat. Underneath the brittle back yard, its roots search as
The Window
by Matthew M. Cariello Then I knew one word, birthright’s rudiment uttered in hunger’s warm room. The sense of me without sense. I would have
Foundation
by Matthew M. Cariello Clutter in the vestibule where steps buckled and mortar cracked. I watched my father crawl into the dark beneath the stoop
Ashes
by Matt W. Miller Tell me the pocketknife that was left over from a dream. Tell me about black bread, pork and beans, stains of cigarettes on
Pi
by Ethan Stebbins If I could place a value on the entire coast of Maine or account in full for the people I love or even approximate my emotional
Yesterday’s War
by Helene Swarts Heat languishes, tired of teasing strength from stone. Huge birds tear at the heart of memory; every headline a crucible, every
In The Dark
by Helene Swarts My dreams are burning like cartoons on fire the characters run through the frames abandoning form calling out to me to leap