POETRY

UNFINISHED EXIT | CLAUDIA WYSOCKY

I keep thinking about the time in high school when you drew me a map…

OCTOBER’S TEARS | TERRI WATROUS BERRY

I am a motherless child in winter, I am a childless mother in the profusion…

A MOTHER’S SON | ARVILLA FEE

Don’t send officers to my door; don’t say you regret to inform me. I don’t…

THREE POEMS | CLS SANDOVAL

MISSING NANA   Just an ordinary drive here to there grocery store maybe stopping for…

WHAT I KNOW NOW | PETER KACZMARCZYK

  People love to ponder what they would tell their younger selves, beguiled by the…

IT STARTS WITH A SMOKE | ADRIAN ERNESTO CEPEDA

  Passing a cigarette on the beach between two strangers, one inside her proud black…

BONES | JEREMY GADD

  Young bones are usually bold, old bones just feel the cold. Walking is easy…

TWO POEMS | CLS SANDOVAL

  ODE TO MY BODY I should thank you For your health How well you…

IN THE ABSENCE OF THREAD | GERI MENDOZA GUTWEIN

  While in a museum, I examined a wreath crocheted withstrands of human hair: black,…

CONFESSION | DOLAPO TAJUDEEN

  no, I wasn’t always that kind of Muslim from the start. I mean the…