Diptych on New Mexico by Kael Moffat

Diptych on New Mexico by Kael Moffat

Featured in Vol.4 Issue 1 | The Spring 2015 Edition   Diptych on New Mexico by Kael Moffat 1. Along I-40, Outside Gallup Beside bones of coyotes bleached like saints, Beside blood dried on concrete like wine on lace, Beside tufts of fur strewn like abandoned...
String Theory by Gunilla Norris

String Theory by Gunilla Norris

Appeared in Volume 3 Issue 3 Gunilla Norris is the feature poet of the issue and has four poems featured in the edition. Photo ©  Stuart Madden   It is so bright today that the two fishermen—dark silhouettes— seem to be standing on water. Perhaps they are father...
Four Nesting Boxes by Diana Woodcock

Four Nesting Boxes by Diana Woodcock

Appeared in Volume 3 Issue 3 Diana Woodcock has two poems featured in this issue. Photo © Lee Coursey   surround the dune shack, each one claimed by a pair of tree swallows busy preening and mating, setting up housekeeping, sweeping insects from the air. Song...
The Old Man And The Heron by John Grey

The Old Man And The Heron by John Grey

Appeared in Volume 3 Issue 3 John Grey has two poems featured in this issue. Photo Left: © Jacquie Roecker | www. jacquieroecker.com   Heron at edge of pond, a spike of blue in green reeds as, in the distance, an old man peers through the telescope. His...
Apple Harvest by Kathleen M. Quinlan

Apple Harvest by Kathleen M. Quinlan

Appeared in Volume 3 Issue 3 Kathleen M. Quinlan has two poems featured in the edition.   Nine pairs of eyes—yours the wariest— narrow at our arrival, track us as we tumble out of the car into our grandfather’s arms. We cower, out-numbered against the locals,...
Only To Be Erased by Amy Nawrocki

Only To Be Erased by Amy Nawrocki

Appeared in Volume 3 Issue 3 Amy Nawrocki has two poems featured in this issue. Photo Left: © Russ Russimages Flickr   Because I am not thinking of the next moment, this one drapes itself, long and evident and words come to my mind only to be erased by others,...
Compass  by C.M. Rivers

Compass by C.M. Rivers

Appeared in Vol 2 Issue 3 (Summer 2014) C.M. Rivers is the feature poet of this issue. Three poems total are featured in the edition. Header Image: © John Fowler   Compass by C.M. Rivers How do we become so fenced in, afraid, mean-spirited? Why not instead leave...
Sacrifices  by Nicolo Santilli

Sacrifices by Nicolo Santilli

Appeared in Vol 2 Issue 3 (Summer 2014) * Two poems by Nicolo Santilli appear in this issue. Header: © LadyDragonfly   Sacrifices by Nicolo Santilli a saint sees the sacrifices that lie under every paving stone and in every mouthful of food how a world of...
Stardust and Peace  by Monika John

Stardust and Peace by Monika John

Appeared in Vol 2 Issue 3 (Summer 2014) *Two other poems by Monkia John also appear in the issue. Header Photo: © Prayer Wheel Michael Bay   Stardust and Peace by Monika John My mind is joined to victim and violator, to conquerors’ greed and insights of Sufi...
The Altar Of Birds by Heloise Jones

The Altar Of Birds by Heloise Jones

Appeared in Vol 3 Issue 2 (Summer 2014) Header Image © Jamie K. Reaser     The Altar Of Birds by Heloise Jones I. I looked to the dawn sky over the bay, saw the coral sheets I knew colored the sand, the water, the homefronts. When I finally stood at the pink...