Poetry

The Singing House

James Braun

a house shored up on the mud banks of the river / where all day the moon sleeps in the guestroom

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

Ian McFarland

During a pandemic / People take to / The typically / Deserted city / Sidewalks

How to become an almost American

Frank C Modica

Change your name / from Francesco to Frank

Coma

John Grey

No more transfusions. / No more shots.

Reasons to Shoot the Guy

John Grey

It would be the thrill of a lifetime. / And the noise, the heat, the foiled recoil

Garden of Earthly Delights

Anna B. Sutton

Chain link rattle, a line of boys jerk / the dugout fence. Delicate fingers / turn beastly

Wilmington

Anna B. Sutton

If you could forgive the palmetto bugs / blanketing the slick rocks under the dock

Smudges Trudge

Zhenya Yevtushenko

One by one, / ants / come / crawling / out

Debt’s Lament ; an echo from DH Lawrence’s Piano

Zhenya Yevtushenko

We rose at dusk / for years on end,

Deleted Poem

Julie Hanson

It was good, but / seemed not good enough. / It was heartless / but throbbed nonetheless.

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