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July 2022 Poetry Feature
New poems by our contributors: ZACK STRAIT, FELICE BELLE, STEPHEN HAVEN, and MITCH SISSKIND.
Table of Contents:
Zack Strait | Fourth Ultrasound
| Dreams to Dream
Felice Belle | postcard from the moon
| the distance between you and me
Stephen Haven | Love at 60
| Sugar
Mitch Sisskind | The Ignoramus
| Only Death Wows Me
Fourth Ultrasound
By ZACK STRAIT
Like two passengers
in a wrecked automobile:
our eyes are fixed
on the sonogram screen—
an upside-down window
with no wiper blade
to sweep away the rain—
as the technician
Communion
By ZACK STRAIT
This is the body, broken for you, the minister says, placing
a small moon on my tongue. I pull it into my mouth
October 2017 Poetry Feature
This October, we’re celebrating fall with new work from four of our contributors.
Becoming A Rice Pot
She held the rice pot too
close to her bosom each time
she had to take a cup of it.
Once she would take as
much, she would keep back
a fistful. She never wanted
the rice pot to be empty.
Motel
By ZACK STRAIT
There is a dark blue bible in the nightstand, a pitcher and torch
stamped on the cover in gold. I rub this symbol
with my thumb and I am comforted, knowing another
man was in this room before me, just to
place his light here.
February 2016 Poetry Feature
Please join us in greeting new contributors Dolores Hayden and Zack Strait—and a big welcome back to Robin Chapman and Alex Cigale.