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Category Archives: Poetry
evolution
Mark A. Fisher evolution it is dawning coming rays of the Sun filling the cave with morning light spilling over the distant horizon fading out the shifting stars rousing people from naïve dreams for another day of their life … Continue reading
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Introduction to July 2024 Poetry (Q3)
Introduction to July 2024 Poetry (Q3) My apologies for the late edition of poetry, which were unavoidable due to a family crisis. But I hope you will consider these poems as “worth the wait.” In this issue we have a … Continue reading
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A&A reviews From Voyages Unreturning
From Voyages Unreturning (Aqueduct Press) by Deborah L. Davitt This poetry chapbook tells the story of an adventurer who leaves earth and travels into the future, on a space voyage, looking for she’s-not-sure-what. Her discovery process and what she finds … Continue reading
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the swan
Joshua Jones Lofflin the swan _______________ Joshua Jones Lofflin’s writing has appeared in Apparition Lit, The Best Microfiction, The Best Small Fictions, The Cincinnati Review, CRAFT, SmokeLong Quarterly, and elsewhere. He lives in Maryland. Find him online at jjlofflin.com Backstory: … Continue reading
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A Cartoon Universe
Todd Sullivan A Cartoon Universe Seong’s classmates cavort on the ceiling, their shrieks of laughter raining down to drench his hair. He creates a flock of sparrow and blue jay origami on the wooden nest of his desk, forced focused … Continue reading
The Folklore of Glass
Suzanne J. Willis The Folklore of Glass There are worlds blown to life by human breath, the breath of little gods. Tiny globes for a single glass bee and its sweet sting; others so vast that cities spring up inside … Continue reading
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Martian Museum
Yuliia Vereta Martian Museum Here’s a stuffed blue whale converted into a fine museum. It’s got all of Mother Earth in it, from beginning to the very end. Dinosaur bones, mounds of snow, the heads of astronauts in alcohol… Stuffed … Continue reading
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Red Destiny
Randall Andrews Red Destiny Red stone beneath my feet, red sand between my toes, red dreams behind my eyes as I sail the barren skies of space. One thousand of my race, one seed upon the breeze, one people called … Continue reading
But this could never be like Kansas
M.C. Childs But this could never be like Kansas An Em and Almira Gulch Found poem and Pantoum for 23 years, I’ve been dying to tell you what I thought of you and here you are and now, well, being … Continue reading
Noctalgic
Ann K. Schwader Noctalgic We are so many & so bright that we have wiped the stars away, surrendering our astral sight to blindness of encroaching day. That we have wiped the stars away impoverished us. Those myths now lost … Continue reading