Monastery of Silence by Milenko Županović Priest every night says a prayer near the church with the blue dome, in a dream music the last time an unnamed grave silence echoes before sleep strange visions…

Chances by Bob Lind The stars held still in their places. Below them, the majestic earth Rolled easy through the night, Moving with purpose but in no hurry. On the ground, there were Lilacs and…

Sura by Ayham Jabr a solitary thought One can go around the world and not fall off. —Stephen Hawking a solitary thought erupts into the dusty town o, be a butterfly—said the child with one…

Mom Recalls How Dad Used to Walk for Miles by James Croal Jackson In those wild woods, poison sumac would distance one from active tracks– jagged moan, trembling steel, cerulean sky waiting for your call:…

The Road Home by Leonard Henry Scott She walks to her car in the IGA parking lot Long striding and brisk in a flowered dress Jim Dandy grits and Budweiser topping her cart Dark eyes…

Lucky Barn by Brian Beatty I often dream of horses asleep in dark stalls surrounding a 1949 Chevrolet beautifully midnight blue and chrome like the earth a car that’s been parked for years beneath piles…

Untraveled Tracts by Thomas Cannon untraveled tracts. among the shadows I tread spongy turf walk with care take me into the windbreak beside the shed past the steel wheeled cultivator plowed to a stop in…

Rumi & the New 'White Flag' Physics by Stefanie Bennett “You can’t take the Kublai Out of the Khan” He said - Slamming the notebook Shut. A sigh righted itself from The doppler effect To…

Channeling Emily by Jean Varda Emily heard new oak leaves unfurl barely making a sound she heard the faint noise of eggs hatching tiny first throated cries she strode through the fox gloves her small…

Confessional Box for Those a Tad Off Plumb by Carol Hamilton Perhaps I heard 9:50 for 9:15. We missed the express bus to Kansas City, had to take a local, all night, stops at every…

An Indian Remedy by Mike Ambrose I have been told that in this Ramayana world – it is wherever it needs to be, this queen of dusty spices, an acquired acquaintance, this pungent curry. A…

Nocturnal Rumination by Lydia Wright i have never been a proper lady. my feet are too big and my hands are too calloused. i freely admit i am guilty of my sins, lost like a…

Suitcase by Claire Scott It’s your father you must come really? she expects me to see him? to travel two thousand miles to see the man who sharp tongued me straight to Chicago, the man…

The Man Arriving by George Moore All you can do is assume a great grandfather at the gunwale, scouting the skyline coming into view after more than a month at sea, some century and a…

Running for Home by Steve De France Rain in the harbor. A fine mist falling from a high sun streaked cloud bank, gentle rain falling like folds being shaken from a lacy curtain. I hear…

ANASTASIA by Louis Gallo I assume I'm finally getting somewhere here at massive Midwest U where I'm grinding toward a grad degree and teaching comp which no one can really teach anyway or learn –…

by Dustin Lowman I remember seeing Chi Chi on the couch curled up into a diagonal oval curled up there all neat and simple and I remember thinking: ‘well you know it’s the simple human…

PÈRE LACHAISE, PARIS by Beth Boylan we climb up through the cemetery on the bleakest of mornings, crossing paths with all the other bundled-up vultures and crows, flitting between Chopin and Piaf hunting and pecking…

Maybe by Myrna Stone Who first spoke you, word of ambiguity and whimsy? You are loathe to commit, the very soul of supposition while escaping our tongues. From you mayhap, mayhem, the buzz of be…

The Fish I Catch by Joseph Lisowski Beyond blue Sky Ocean Is the dark I love. I live For eternity’s Endless Beginnings. My kaleidoscope Before dim light Is a mirror Where I As a lover…

Peter has gotten a new job by Robert Ronnow Peter has gotten a new job as a bookstore clerk from one to ten down by the river in a sunny little house. I've come to…

Red on Green by Lynda Warne Rye Shoulders, Cake Breasts by Emily Strauss warm loaves like buttocks baked into shape, the clay oven cooling now butter softens, quince jam chunky the knife will cut me open…

Tourist Season by Sarah A. O’Brien we watch armies of retreating fiddler crabs while you refer to sand beneath our feet as the “graveyard of the sea.” we debate the emotional lives of canines, and cruelties…

Huffy by Jim Landwehr beneath these wheels of my three speed Huffy summit avenue races by – a road taking me and my brothers past the mansions of attorneys brokers and bankers – we are…

Roadside by Theresa Lockhart People used to flick cassettes from car windows, Keep driving, laughing, rejecting songs no Longer worth hearing, in their opinion. Roadside ribbons blow casually upward, Pretending they are attached to balloons…

Veils by Sindhu Verma Veils of so many colors, Dressing windows and wounds, Opaque, thick, heavy Fluid, translucent, transparent, Thick, heavy, dusty, Flimsy, paper-thin, perforated. Embroidered, embellished Torn and frayed, For every time and every…

Clouds by Robin Dawn Hudechek The cloud is a dog, paws tucked under his chin, nails curled above the mountain pass, and another cloud is a maiden. The dog rolls on his back and the…

The Offering by Sky Black Exile by Howie Good Looking serious and faintly melancholy, a grounded sparrow gazes skyward, a little feather hat in hues of brown tending toward gold. ### Howie Good’s latest poetry…

Things the dead leave by Rick Richardson Two fishing poles, a feather, a leather jacket with holes on both elbows, forty-four dollars and change in an envelope, some dope, a pair of worn out cowboy…

Akizuki by Joe Helmick Once a year the cherry blossoms burst into view lining the promenades and chic avenues. All the while people stroll and exclaim how Nature in her wonder endures such fame. With…

An alliance with sleep by Vasudha Chhotray Come sleep, be my ally. Better an unwilling alliance, than to stand alone. And don’t leave me with the morning. The night brings me stars, maybe a million…

Sonnet nr. 13 by Hagalin The sky turns a murky shade, Blue earth shifts to dark gray, My heart thumps & dirt starts to fade. The clouds open up to say: “Quiet now, embrace the…

Eros Takes Time, Time Bites Back by Andrew Kuo Let me hear your honeyed prevarications touched with bituminous rumorous venom. Let me feel timorous bass exploring my body. No, love isn't idiopathic. It's a peregrine…

Lover of Jane Eyre by Abigail George Infirm in old age – Of dark, mocking falling leaves. A Kafkaesque quiet. Laws of attraction – The pain body of summer. Black hair is my fish. Another…

Leaving by Sky Black Prairie Summer by Howard F. Stein Whoever hopes for a moderate summer is a dreamer or a fool. The hard-bitten soul looks for a place to hide these four months, or…

The Piano And His Boy by April Votolato like sleep comes like lungs fill with air so too, we let go my flowered lips turned down your perfect laugh came undone and in silence we…

Kingdom of heaven by Tsiviltidou Zoi To make babies To crawl home to Across all seas, all ships Across the wisdom of the heart To sacrifice to learn To feel compassion, to get scared Associatively…

Limnophobia By Kelly Alfano Fear of Lakes We were thirteen, Skinned knees, And cherry stained fingers. She was strawberry blonde, Ripped jeans, and dimples. We’d cast by the lake, On tire swing Tuesday’s, With piggy…

Airship Maximus by Mike Savad Anima by Witty Fay There is a book ladder growing out of my right cheek Piercing the flesh of the ceiling, Smiling at the translucent bulb Of yellowish glow around…