I am writing to tell you
what it was like for me
the days I sat beside you, holding
the phone on speaker Continue reading ““Here, After” by Doris Ferleger”
Tag: 2020 Winter Issue
“Familiar” by Jill Bronfman
Enter La Basílica de la Sagrada Família
Past the glories of art and color and light
There is a tower
It is dark inside, and the path is difficult Continue reading ““Familiar” by Jill Bronfman”
“Not Barcelona” by Jill Bronfman
Gaudí tapped me on the shoulder in the nearly-finished Casa Batlló and asked me if I liked the center atrium. Having been raised in a farmer’s stucco house, I thought I’d say it was beautiful. Artists always seek beauty, right? Before I could remember how to say beautiful in Catalan, he started up again about the blue tile and was it the blue of the ocean or of the sky. And that’s when I knew he meant to find truth, and that beauty was just a house that he saw from the train that went by too fast to see. Continue reading ““Not Barcelona” by Jill Bronfman”
“One Art” by GTimothy Gordon
… something beyond themselves, beyond words.
-Celan-
There’s a scent that can’t be defined
like breathless painting, music, dance
unplowed yet into sentient fields,
graphic grey-mists hovering water,
that won’t be read or turned to tongue Continue reading ““One Art” by GTimothy Gordon”
“The Morning After” by K. M. Huber
A hummingbird quivers near the open window—
a brown violetear, Colibri delphinae,
flashes glimpses of its emerald throat, dips
into flowers—buries itself in a trembling bloom
while I answer the phone. Continue reading ““The Morning After” by K. M. Huber”
“Synoptic: In Red and Blue” by GTimothy Gordon
The Tale
At Ali’Shan we witness what’s left
of skeletal rare red cypress
Nippon clear-cut an aeon ago. Continue reading ““Synoptic: In Red and Blue” by GTimothy Gordon”
“War Field” by Joshua Young
Joshua Young is the author of six collections, most recently, Psalms for the Wreckage (Plays Inverse, 2017) and the chapbook, Weekends of Sound: 764-Hero Mixtape (Madhouse Press, 2020). His novella, Little Galaxies, is forthcoming from Los Galesburg Press in 2020. Joshua lives just outside Seattle and you can find him online at joshuabrianyoung.com.
Featured Art: Edward Supranowicz
Edward Michael Supranowicz has had artwork and poems published in the US and other countries. Both sides of his family worked in the coalmines and steel mills of Appalachia.
Featured Art: Brett Stout
Brett Stout is a 40-year-old artist and writer. He is a high school dropout and former construction worker turned college graduate and paramedic. He creates mostly controversial work usually while breathing toxic paint fumes from a small cramped apartment known as “The Nerd Lab” in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. His work has appeared in a vast range of diverse media, from international indie zines like Litro Magazine UK to Brown University. He is tired of talking about himself at this point and prefers that his artwork speak for itself. Thanks.
“Home” by Samantha Malay
when we no longer live in our bodies
do we inhabit the spaces between
voices cupped in bedspread folds
hands around a match
winter kitchen cookbook stains
unmarked keys
missing teeth
tufts of feather and bone? Continue reading ““Home” by Samantha Malay”