3 senryu – by Helen Buckingham
the tension around my tension tension full moon beyond good and evil MLK Day the killing continues
Worth Your Attention? – by Mark Danowsky
Music trumps information according to the author of Bug Music We will re-listen, he says when we will not re-read Music came first, after all and does not even require an instrument But so much music is noise just as words can be clutter and certain plants are weeds
3 Poems – Marc Alexander Valle
Branches, buddings, purple wrens, landing, chirping, bouncing, over battlefield trenches Desert, moon, white, dunes, sand, blowing, unearthing limestone ruins Thick mist clears, hot air balloon armada blots the atmosphere
Odds and Ends – by Corey Mesler
I think a twist of metal is a spider. I think a spider is the Antichrist. I think the Antichrist sleeps at my feet. I think I will live forever. I find a note to myself written inside a seashell: There are no odds. I still believe in odds. I still believe in ends. I […]
Scripture – by Tom Holmes
I learned to write watching mother mow the lawn. Back and forth. Ruling perfect lanes that her thin shadow marked. She did this every week – cutting and marking.
Ma – by Ann Quinn
In Japan, Ma is the essential space of nothingness—the empty, the void. I’ve been thinking about the in-between places lately like the space between words and the silence between notes and the summer between school years and the nights between days and how essential the in betweens are and what I’m wondering is if death […]