Category Archives: Poetry

Veronica Tucker The Triage Window Beneath the Lake They open it only at night, the square of water set into the emergency department floor, cold light trembling across the tiles. The lake is older than the hospital. Some say it … Continue reading →

Suzanne J. Willis The Snow Queen’s Women …………I. Granny Storyweaver On winter nights, Granny and her words are warmer than the hearth-fire, though her stories are of trolls and goblins, and magic mirrors splintering the heart. She serves her words … Continue reading →

Veronica Tucker The House That Learned to Keep Time Differently Lately the house has begun to adjust the hours on its own. The hallway lengthens toward dusk, stretching into years I thought I had already buried. Footsteps echo before anyone … Continue reading →

Richard Magahiz Give to All Today The thing that living beings consume is the radiation given off by stars. With nothing in between the God ball sustains its ten billion dependents. For stars are profligate and give away what they … Continue reading →

Hannan Khan troll grows you in the cavernous where nettles drone a keeper of moss churns the soil with hands of stone rhizomes bend, not break, beneath his touch he plants soundlessness; he waters shadow he culls weeds of reminiscence … Continue reading →

CP Nwankwo Animal Eschatology when the dog dies, silence drifts like a reed basket down the stream; grief returns like a bark swallowed by shaped stones. they say there’s a domestic city where the spirit of beasts gathers beneath green’s … Continue reading →

M. Frost The Truth About Wings On a rocket ship …………………………………………..in space, you learn the truth about wings,…………. how air, not gravity, achieves flight, …………………………………………………………………………….still the birds disoriented, the down and the up without the weight of sky ………………………………………………………………….windless ……………………………………………………….reflection … Continue reading →

Anna Cates Foiled Ploys uncoil, rattle into sordid reality. Stars sink in the muck pond’s midnight stink, where toads gloat, cold and dark, and old trees creak how demons goad the wayward on. Electric charge tingles, lifts dusky locks, the … Continue reading →

Stephanie Smith Geometry The moon glides by on ice skates across a frozen sky Everything here is crystalline Still and perfect like geometry An entity that has known this world for eons Known its secrets It whispers equations in the … Continue reading →

John C. Mannone Naming Animals There are animals in the sky. See those that lurk in the house of stars where there are stories that I heard in a dream —beyond the knowing of fire and light, each star, a … Continue reading →