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January 2016 Poetry Introduction

January 2016 Poetry Introduction I am delighted to present these poems to kick off the 2016 season. Out of hundreds of submissions, these poems offer something fresh. The issue opens with Time Clock By Christiaan Sabatelli (Highland, NY) with the … Continue reading

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Exhale

Exhale by Brittany Swenson                               _______________ Brittany Swenson is an American writer living in New York City. She has been published in Thought Catalog and has … Continue reading

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Making Lemonade

Making Lemonade by E.E. King   You’re walking down the street A man wearing a white Tee-shirt that says Life hands you something It is round It is yellow It smells like summer Like weddings Like fields Like bees Like … Continue reading

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When Lazarus Moves His Hands

When Lazarus Moves His Hands by Marchell Dyon He wiggles his fingers like spider legs Now free from Sheol’s invisible chains With the swiftness of a snail, He moves his fingers closer to sunlight That filters in like ivy That … Continue reading

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Do Not Forsake

Do not forsake E. Kristin Anderson   __________________________________________________________________ (This is an erasure poem. Source material: “My Dos & Don’ts: by Kate McKinnon Glamour, September 2014, page 116.) _______________ E. Kristin Anderson’s first two chapbooks came out recently: A Guide for … Continue reading

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Details

Details by T.D. Walker                                                               _______________ T.D. Walker‘s poems have … Continue reading

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I Love All the Space Photos

I Love All the Space Photos by E. Kristin Anderson We were talking about having those nightmares. (I’ve started saying those words out loud.) You wake up sweating; I got two cuts. I’ve started saying those words out loud— believe … Continue reading

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Alter Ego

Alter Ego by Victoria G. Smith   Mother, since your death, I swim in and out of you like water through gills— a recurring dream of the dreamer recurring in the dream. I grab and shake you, screaming Enough of … Continue reading

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Marble Love

Marble Love by Mary Catherine Harper How much better for them both, that crazy mad Othello to have been right in his surmise, his saintly Desdemona to have taken a lover after all. But no man could get inside that … Continue reading

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The Boats

                        _______________ Currently cataloging librarian for a public library, Adele Gardner loved being editor for The Mariners’ Museum and projectionist for AMC Theatres. Home wouldn’t be complete without five … Continue reading

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