SCHOOL KITCHEN MATRONS IN WINTER Up before sunrise, morning chores finished, past chattering students who huddle outside, they’ve entered early today’s waiting work. Unwrapping themselves,
Two Poems By Angie Minkin
Housecleaning Sestina After a Rough Night My night dreams are wild rooms full of old ghosts flickering behind my eyes in odd light— fractals and
Two Poems By Robert Donohue
Blessings Today, just for us three, there is a tender Blessing. Along with me here’s Mike, a goner, And here is Amber, proud to be
Simmering Tango By Michael Todd Steffen
Simmering Tango You’d hardly believe them partners, the way her feet get dragged in the passive pose, a living corpse that springs with guiro strums
Two Poems By Jake Price
The City of Cowboy Killers Desert clouds as dark and black as in- k, Marlboros fall from the sky like hail. Kids rush from the
My Face Dove into a Juniper Bush to Remember By Lisa St. John
My Face Dove into a Juniper Bush to Remember (to inhale remembrance) Santa Fe welcomes me. Juniper bushes bare sensuous cedar smells—woodsy-green memory. Hungry for
Grand Little Things 