Poetry
Three Poems by Charlotte Friedman
I want to go back to the crush close push press / of unfamiliar bodies, sweat stink and soft punch / of day-old powdery perfume
Three Poems by Steve Lang
As, scrabbling tragically he slides / Into breathless air, so thin, to land / With an unechoed thud, instant husk,
Three Poems by Mercedes Lawry
Everyone was hungry. Everyone / pulled their arms and legs tight against / themselves, feeble cocoons.
Poetry by Christopher Linforth
What can I offer this strange creature whose / slowed heartbeat is the opposite of mine?
Poetry by Tracy Sallows
Belongings dispersed and distributed / Are treasures in some other troves
Five Poems by Sophie Strand
Lately, the coffee has been strong, the friends / plentiful as maple keys spinning on the breeze
Five Poems by Aubree Tillett
One hour a day I trade / an urban jungle for a garden / bed where compost soil rests
An Interview with Karen Garthe
I remember coming out of the anesthesia, drifting back from wherever it is you go, back to consciousness. I looked at my mother and said “Now, will you tell me why we’re here?”
Two Poems by Carol V. Davis
The scientist invited me to her work, greeted me / on the icy sidewalk to usher me past guards stomping
Two Poems by Chris Holdaway
Longing for what it already had; yea, the rain / Should have replaced the air one-for-one,
L’aura, by Ian A. Bonaparte
I’m always whisked to midnight / by ugly wind.
Brief, by Ella Ramsay
I think, “It must be she, the tree, standing attentive ...
Three Poems by Thomas Cook
I suppose I have been this man, regardless of what can be said of me
The New Silent Spring, by Valerie Luzadis
The tree buds are swelling, and spring emerges
Singing Waters, by Liv Hazard
the moths on paper towels are too perfect to move
Two Poems by Lyndsey Kelly Weiner
lying on the smooth wooden bottom / of a drawer, suckling rhythmically at the air
Three Poems by Cindy Ostuni
Know the way /hollow openings lead to a surface, the way a girl’s / knees know clutching tree bark will keep / her from falling.
Two Films by Lori H. Ersolmaz
Two Films
Photos and Photo-haiga by Alan Bern
BIO: Retired children's librarian Alan Bern’s poetry books: No no the saddest and Waterwalking in Berkeley, Fithian Press; greater distance, Lines & Faces, his broadside press with artist [...]
Dear Blue Mussel, by Anna Chwiejczak
kicked around by tourists, / buried from the midnight / sun