Tag: Issue 6
Ode to the Furnace |Robert Penick |Flash Fiction
The absolute best sound on Earth to me is the furnace coming on in winter. There is a click, then a full second of silence, then the whoosh as the gas kicks in and ignites. There is a certain reassurance there, knowing that something is protecting me and I might somehow outlive the night. Perhaps […]
Four Poems|Michael Brockley
Aloha Shirt Noir You retired from asking kindergartners to tell you a synonym for lie. And hung your brand-new P. I. shingle over a studio above a graphic novel store on Highway 13. During your last trip to the fiftieth state, you bought a closet-full of Aloha shirts with Hawaii-5-0 badges adrift on a […]
Two Poems|Claire Williams
Put On A Record Darling until now i thought you’d be a god come to rescue me out of my life. now i turn a stone into anything i want, and i no longer have to practice pausing mid-chew to let the bite of flesh dissolve secretly in my mouth. i never asked […]
Four Poems|Lorraine Caputo
THE AFTERNOON RAINS HAVE COME AGAIN Sometimes it showers an hour before sunset or perhaps between midday & dusk Sometimes the dawn breaks with fog crawling through valleys & narrow streets Sometimes the night with a come-again rain washing down the hills, down the roofs, across the terrace Sometimes a silent […]
YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF YOUR PLACE IN THE WORLD|John Grey
YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF YOUR PLACE IN THE WORLD In the morning, you mull over the bloody reverie of last night, and why there’s not the same regret as there was in years long past. Werewolf. Damn that word. Why give it a different name than your own. You accept yourself. The hairy beast, the man […]
Three Poems|Parthasarathy Muralidharan
Unknowing her I devoted a whole Sunday ahead of her birthday for her I first thought of a broche but couldn’t recall her hair style whether she used a broche or not Fancy bangles were good but I didn’t know her hand size I couldn’t recall the authors she mentioned rarely so books were […]
Three Poems|Lynn White
Far Horizons, Distant Dreams Once the light shone so brightly that time and distance stretched for ever, the horizon at infinity strung with the pearls of distant dreams. And in between a hinterland of possibilities just waiting to be grasped. But then, as the light dimmed, time and distance collapsed inwards dragging the horizon […]
Two Poems|Stephen House
his cafe at midday i walk through the crowded inside room of his cafe and go to the backroom where we meet the two guys that work here must know what’s going on in the room or they wouldn’t let me in there is clarity about the safety of this […]
Two Poems|Oloyede Michael Taiwo
Election This candidate is parvenus stamped his face on a loaf of bread for a street to feast on fear and calumny clad his face and his cologne drips of impropriety; Incessantly dodging questions and queries slung at him by the masses His words were coquettish Only the street that had his coveted edifices […]
Four Poems|Psalmuel Benjamin Oluwasheun
WHEN YOU SEE A BOY CRY Boys don’t cry, only leak. the abs & chest are wide enough to hold a torrent after every lynch. When you see a boy cry, grief has just pinched his soul. This is a sour song of dark rhythm– Its lyric is aligned with bitterness, & aches, […]