S.Marie LaFata-Clay – Animal Lisa’s Guide to Getting Sober
Animal Lisa’s Guide to Getting Sober Write it down & pretend it is fiction. Read it to a campfire from a safe distance like my father the urban legend last seen on a night much like this as a kerosene soaked match humming against an oil drum beating my mother with his skull because matches […]
Emily Linstrom – Only Aria
Only Aria The night he died I dreamed of Baroque cathedrals, a heaven within and outside the universe, infinite and appalling, as if all we contained was not meant for a heaven, even if the bedding is nice. Forgive me, I didn’t know how not to be an enigma prowling about the house like a […]
John Trause’s Exercises in High Treason,
Reviewed by Francine Witte
John J. Trause Exercises in High Treason great weather for MEDIA ISBN 978-0-9857317-8-6 Reviewer: Francine Witte The cover of John J. Trause’s new collection of poetry, Exercises in High Treason, tells you exactly what you are about to walk into. A casual glance at the cover shows a jumble of letters and words in […]
Gina Valdés – Omens
Omens A lizard drags its tail through a crack in the world to lie on my altar under a skylight among saints and buddhas. For days the gecko sits still and silent: a green monk revealing the way to lizardy heaven, while on the oaks, crows cry out— for us to decode— the names of […]
Mary Makofske – This Country Could Break My Heart
This Country Could Break My Heart Slicked back hair, tooled boots, ten gallon hat that makes the head seem big. Broad hands, callused, quick to clench those women always running into fists. Blood’s easier than love, love’s short, somebody’s gonna cheat and break my heart, this country says. Oh lonesome road I can’t resist, outside […]
