"Beauty" - Marck L. Beggs
"The risk in joy,
she moaned, was loss."
Two Poems - Brad Bostian
"In that dream of
not belonging,
I take the sand-spurs and the heel-burning road
Down to
the land's end..."
Two Poems - Patty Mooney
"You want to trade
me in
for someone who will hurt you."
Two Poems - Peter Howard
"a rattle of short
machine-gun bursts:
these words are going to stay
processed."
Two Poems - Gerard Varni
"First the needle
through the flesh
Of a coarse and blighted face,
Piercing the veil of
courage..."
Four Poems - Doug Tanoury
"I watch them in
trees
Leafless, stark and unreal
Like x-ray images..."
Two Poems - Shann Palmer
"none of it came
true except we never
married and I'm still writing poetry
pulling lint
out of my navel and calling it art"
"hero" - MacKenzie Williams
"I am the man in
the fedora
I never miss a punch-
Line. "
"Slurring" - Daniel
Weinshenker
"I whispered about
this..."