Tag: Issue 10
Four Poems | Tim Kahl
The Little Angel There was one little angel with a tricked-out wing that hung on the tree. Every year it got stuck in the back and stared at the wall. There are too many milkweed pod birds on this damn thing, the angel cried, and birds weren’t even part of the manger scene. The […]
Three Poems | Yuan Changming
Mindful Mindset 1/ Here: Into the Reality You see, here’s the leaf dyed with the full Spectrum of autumn; here’s the dewdrop Containing all the dreams made on the Darkest corner of last night; here’s the Light pole in the forest where gods land From another higher world; here’s the swirl You can […]
Four Poems | Donna Pucciani
Alessandro, Five Months Old In twenty years, your old American auntie will be dead—or wishing she were— and you will be a young man strutting your stuff in the streets of Madrid, turning heads in tavernas or at the university where your English spangles the campus of Romance tongues. Your pants […]
Four Poems | PW Covington
Vampire Conditions These are vampire conditions, Brian Pulling in all manner of matter and kindness Taking it all, letting nothing escape The many varieties of vampire Stalking through William Burroughs’ Western Lands Through Milky Way Los Angeles…and worse Vampirism is as American As the Internet Always taking more than giving Dead and dying, always more […]
Four Poems | Ramachandran M A
This Time this time you set off for a house in the shadow of a leaf this time you stand in a house that doesn’t exist still this time you open a door and a window to the garden this time in the leaf-fall this time neither your father […]
Broken | JB Favour | Fiction
18/07/2021 Chains… Blood…. Tears…. Sweat…. These words might help you envision captivity or one needing rescue or freedom of some sorts. But maybe…just maybe you thought wrong. The one who truly needed rescuing isn’t in chains. At least not literally. But if you cared just enough to look harder for a second more… […]