Four Corners, U.S.A. By Kasy Long
She blames herself for the battles;
I blame myself for the war.
A silent night in the desert,
we meet where the four states patch together
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KEPLER FUGUE BY BENJAMIN RENNE
At last the summer months gained friction and the calculations dimmed away beneath the long stretch of daylight.
Read MoreINVISIBLE FOOTSTEPS BY TONI PALOMBI
IN A CROWDED refugee camp in Bethlehem, Echlas chain-smokes her way through a pack of cigarettes recently purchased by her 9-year-old neighbor. Small for his age, and always smiling, he drops by often to ask whether she needs anything from one of the small shops in the camp.
Read MoreDESOLATION THESAURUS BY DAVID ANTHONY SAM
Break the falsity of self
into its bony fragments
ENDURE BY DANIEL DAVID
What will you endure, each moment, each morning when
the burden begins again? (Repetition may be the suffering.)
LIFE GLIMPSES BY RONALD J. PELIAS
In the August sun
in a window
a vase
without water
GRANDPA’S COMPANION BY MARIANNE LYON
Bulging rucksack
clutches sculpted shoulders of
sprouting boy who
wears two faces
American wild unsettled spunk
Croatian aching timid hope
MODERN AGE BY SIANI HENRIQUES
This morning
how many of you wished your covers
were covered with super glue
and they plastered you
to your yellowing mattress
so you wouldn’t have to experience
the dread of getting out of bed
THROUGH DIRTY GLASS BY BARBARA DANIELS
Light rises from a white bird—pigeon
at the crusted edge of a roof
ARIA, ASIDE BY DAVID BONTUMASI
I run my fingers along the coarse green curtains in my bedroom window and look down at the silent form of our next door neighbor as she shuffles in the soft glow of her kitchen light.
Read MoreGIRLS NEVER FORGET BY FERRIS JONES
And she stood up, left her den to crawl back to herself to remember when. Moments of promised love past speak soft and fine tales of love, that still wails.
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