Archive | July 2012
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Brendan McDonnell – Still
Still She was the prettiest girl you ever loved, but she tortured you like the Inquisition. She’d bawl that she loved you one minute, flirt with your friends the next. Every few weeks you’d break it off, for good this time, until she scratched at your apartment door to toy with your heart like a […]
Séamas Carraher – The Transparency of Perfection
The Transparency of Perfection For Linda on her 27th Birthday I She uncoils wind in its slender sinews both surface and depth and my uncurling bones, it names this mystery, its softening, like a sad evening shunted between doors. She unrolls in my rippling muscle such tenseness unknotting time, a loud noise in a shock […]
Carl Scharwath – My Daughter’s Window
My Daughter’s Window For a moment Frozen at the window A peaceful vision glorifies The placid tree thrusts into Our luminous sky. Letting go in death A dull gold leaf Dancing slowly To its grave of memories. – Carl Scharwath
Mark J. Mitchell – Three Poems
Art Lesson You take a step into the Chinese scroll That used to be San Francisco. A gray Wall over a grayer bay and some small holes Punched by bridges, barges, hints of mountain Or hill, prison to your right as views unroll, A little worn at the curled edges. Stray Ribbons of fog float […]
Valentina Cano – Two Poems
Death A summit of light built before her. A canopy rising higher and higher as she looks up. Her hands press against her eyes trying to swipe the brightness away, but her fingers are bathed in it, They smell like light, bright, burnt sugar, they sizzle against her eyelids setting them on fire like the […]
Eleanor Leonne Bennett – Three Pieces
Portraiture Photography Rekinde 089 You Will Fly with Happy Thoughts – Eleanor Leonne Bennett
Chris Castle – Betsy’s Buttons
Betsy’s Buttons How did she do it? That was what Kristy Ambrose was thinking as she staggered into the bathroom that day. She ran her head under the cold tap and stepped into the shower. Somewhere, Betsy was climbing out of her bed and would soon start tearing around the house until it was time […]
John Grey – Three Poems
WAITING on the steps of the bar, eating peanuts from a brown bag, tossing the shells onto the sidewalk Friday, your payday, in rumpled gray, red uniform, school satchel on my back, some people stop to stare, sum up my story in an instant and you’re inside, on your fifth beer, your tenth joke, your […]
William Doreski – On the Far Edge of America
On the Far Edge of America My face in the mirror looks raw as seafood. The dawn feels limp against my skin. Yesterday a friend reported that his liver cancer has claimed his other organs, revising and reordering them in defiance of their Latin names. Six months to live, if he’s lucky. If it would […]
Brian Michael Barbeito – The Witnesses
The Witnesses (Flora Chime and Tree) At that angle you could see that the wind arrived at the tree to lift its branches. Raising them up with a slight and determined motion, like horses go upwards on a merry-go-round, the thick and layered leaves made for worlds inside the structures of the branches. The wind […]
