Connie Post – Scuba Diver
Scuba Diver My father would bring home abalone from his scuba diving trips At age five I didn’t really know what it meant or why his black suit hung in the garage but at times I would find his mask and try it on and pretend I could hold my breath for a long time […]
Tim Suermondt – History Is Lazy Today
History Is Lazy Today The world does what it does as I do what I do. Cars and trucks labor across the highway bridge, birds display their aerodynamics over the construction site. History is lazy today, resting against a tall building, checking out well before nightfall. Perhaps we will be able to sleep with the […]
Alexis Rhone Fancher – Orbit
Orbit “Astronomers Say Earth Has a Newly Discovered ‘Quasi-Moon,’ a Companion That Shares Its Orbit Around the Sun” – The Smithsonian Magazine, 2025 I orbit you the way the Earth does the Sun, shining in your castoff, dancing in your heat. I’ve made myself a gift to you, an homage to your body, your humor, […]
Chad Weeden – Mint Hill—Late for the Reading
Mint Hill—Late for the Reading for J Shooed out the shop by broom. My fault. I offered to sweep the threshold. Crumbs and ash. Aged paper. The bent bristles that pierced our ribs. We shuffled on again, all scars and none the wiser. Idiots of the night. The same poems wrinkled in our breast pockets […]
Brandon C. Spalletta – When We Were Younger
When We Were Younger For John We’d hunker down like hermits in his open garage, barely beyond the reach of rain and listen to the footsteps of thunderstorms approach. We’d make up stories the way we imagined children had done down by the river’s edge thousands of years prior with the protection of the forest […]
