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Recently published poetry & prose

Braydon Beaulieu [bio][web][Twitter]

He shuts out the cold Sutton wind whistling off the creek, and locks in colder quiet.

Stella Pierides [bio][web][Twitter]

The Frisian lands lying flat

open up to infinite skies

let the moon-pulled tides

carve rivulets of love

in the sand.

TT [bio][web][Twitter]

By night he'd take her by the hand and, as in their youth, go smoke pot under the bridge. By day, they were grandpa and grandma.

L. K. Below [bio][web][Twitter]

Inhaling deeply

I gather myself

Like the tines of a zipper.

Steven Crandell [bio][web][Twitter]

Life is a near-death experience

Ancestors sing in my spine

Offspring give shape to memory

Memory gives shape to time

Shannon Anthony [bio][web][Twitter]

Red-winged blackbirds flock, a convention of male epaulets. The boss says, her shoulders burning, "The pond goes."

Peter Keller [bio][Twitter]

Warm breeze

patrols the streets

parking tickets

flutter

S. Kay [bio][Twitter]

Sleet sweeps the hills. Houses fold into mudslides. A cat climbs my limbs and I become her tree in the flood. Strays, we cuddle.

Stella Pierides [bio][web][Twitter]

One Sound, One World

Big, tough fella

loud, racy lass

timid Cinderella

prodigy, alas

blow your vuvuzela

if you must.

John Poch [bio][web][Twitter]

Longer Half of the L


May loneliness leave only lovely long lawns after.

May this green's light leaves lift to rafters laughter.