Month: October 2020
Two Poems|John Grey
Three Poems|Glen Armstrong
Four Poems|Christian Garduno
Two Poems|Cheryl Vargas
Off my mark Smack on the lips! The kiss on the cheek went awry. Overshot my target three inches left. Landed on his mouth. It all happened so quickly. I followed through. Although completed with a subpar version of my best work, like some knockoff Gustav Klimt. The train slipped the track. Why didn’t […]
Two Poems|Bruce McRae
Letter From You A letter from you is like a slap on the backside. A letter from you is as rare as chickens singing. Surely the postman has accomplished a great task, affection’s courier, messenger of longings, agent of deliverance. A letter from you is scented and stamped. It’s travelled far. The […]
Three Poems|Ann Privateer
See Naples and Die|Allan Lake|Poetry
Catchy slogan, that one. Caught me. I had thought death a mere metaphor or, at worst, result of botched interaction with local mafia but, upon arrival in that beautiful and infamous southern Italian city, developed a small cough. I coughed in the B&B when I should have slept, coughed over cornetti and morning espresso, […]
Two Poems|Aldo Quagliotti
Meta-morphosis I know, amid growing fears, that my future doesn’t translate into peaking, nor into ministerial codes pregnancy doesn’t fall straight into bilateral jurisdiction future is way off-track when you’re modelling your own shape bright-eyed determination coasting the abysmal call of depression I have a perilous affinity with darkness crowding in spreading unsafely […]