Two Poems
I've stood beside their images
quickening under pale sheets
and prayed for snow
Joy Hewitt Mann

 

Two Poems
On my knees in shadow
as the moon observes,
I thin the radishes by touch
Sharon Kourous

 

Two Poems
Yesterday, I was in Tokyo,
kneeling in a Jinja, fingers
reading whorls
Susan Gorgioski

 

Heat
The red woman delivered barbecue
and tart lemonade: her words
searing enough to singe our clothes
L.A. Schuler

 

Wicker Time
but he is not a man a hollow
man a towering man mama but
not a man he is screaming
Laird Barron

 

Apart at the Seams
Aline began to wash
the floors and windows
in all the rooms
Beau Boudreaux

 

Explosive
Today she is being told
that she should exercise her prerogative to wait
before she makes her move
Rochelle Hope Mehr

 

A Campari at Contina D'Ampezzo
It was the wild green road I loved,
But was afraid not to freeze
Duane Locke

 

Twelve Songs for a Broken Ankle
The frayed edges
of the broken bone reach out
to one another like pale garden tendrils
Kimberly Townsend Palmer

 

Love Handles
my branches are trembling with too cruel a breeze
my shock absorbers are too shot
my brains are blue hot
John Curl