Tag: Issue 15
Two Poems | Andre Peltier
Clear Walloon To sleep the sleep of days, cleansed by the water of clear Walloon. To sleep the amphibian sleep of salamanders, sirens and mudpuppies, eyes shut tight like The Annex doors on Sunday morning. In a den of simplicity, caring not for the big city or the shadows in the dark, caring not […]
Three Poems | Ahmad Al-khatat
When I Live and Die I don’t have to look up at the stars again, I won’t hold. the blade of shame against my flesh by myself in my room. I shed a tear like an alcoholic. I laugh and laugh like a smoker. then I dance up there like a clown wondering […]
TO THE PASSER BY | Fiorella Ruas | Play
To The Passer By a monologue by Fiorella Ruas A homeless bi-gender street entertainer called JO-JOE does a cartwheel by a wall. Falls. Lifts themselves up. Backs up. Bends down to pick up two juggling sticks. Throws […]
Three Poems | David Howerton
—In front of coffee shop— Slim jeans strut by impish smile leading, trip on feet she doesn’t care sways hips even more. —getting by on— Friday the 13th again, just another day, getting by. Doesn’t seem like much, yet you live through so many, wanting something to reach out…. Of […]
Four Poems | Patricia Nelson
So Many Serpentine Monsters This thumb-wide, hissing spine grew fatter as you slept. A crooked line now slips across the daylit stones and lifts the blue light in a swaying mouth. Pause your thudding boots, your bright-red, stumbling heart. Let strangeness taste you with its split gray tongue. […]