By Leila Farjami
Poetry
Pantoum For My Father
By Rick Pernod
Motorcycle on My Mind
By Ian C Smith
Afghan Bombs Are Not Meant for Children
By Mervyn Seivwright
Arrangements
By Jean Kane
Habeas Rabies
By ROBERT BENSEN
A Slice of Surreality
By F.R. Foksal
On the First Day
By Donna L. Emerson
Before the Memorial
By Sandra J Kolankiewicz
No
By Michael Simms
Rumor of War
By Michael Simms
A Lesson in Drawing
By Nizar Qabbani / translated by Rana Bitar and Robert Bensen
Mocha Wars
By Rob Cook
My Husband’s Dementia
By Rochelle Jewel Shapiro
The Dead
By Alison Hackett
Dust in the Streets
By Michael Salcman
from “October Sequence,” #47
By Sheila E. Murphy
First Photos
By Abby Caplin
Sunlight
By S.F. Wright
The Indignation Parade
By F. R. Foksal
Rapids
By Sharon Kennedy-Nolle
Pendulum Loves Splash Mountain
By Carol Everett Adams
Embedded
By Jacqueline Henry
A Room in Venice
By Jim Kraus
Secret Messages
By Kurt Luchs
Just One
By Margaret B. Ingraham
To Get to That Place
By Lynn Hoggard
Wind Linguistics
By Leisha Douglas
Secret Agent
By Stephen Massimilla
I Am a Quirkless Woman
By Stephanie Kaplan Cohen
Low Tide
By Evalyn Lee
War
By Ed Schad
Tessellation
By Caitlin M.S. Buxbaum
Ocean High
By Judith Cody
All Over Us
By Donna L. Emerson
Rhapsodies of Seduction
By Rana Bitar
A View from My Window at Night
By Julene Waffle
*
By Simon Perchik
De Sidere
By Meredith Davies Hadaway
To the Parsonage
By Ian C Smith
At times
By José Pedro Leite
Paradise or Better Yet
By Suzanne van Leendert
Here are my hands
By José Pedro Leite
midlife crisis
By Vicki Whicker
He called to say he needed a new car
By Laurel Blossom
Plan of Attack
By Suzanne van Leendert
A Realm
By Stephanie V Sears
Observatories
by Rich Murphy
funhouse
by RC deWinter
Creeping Fig
by Laurel Blossom
The Train of Sorrows
By Nizar Qabbani / translated by Rana Bitar and Robert Bensen
Outside is happening
by Terence John
Standing in Lines
by Nizar Qabbani / translated by Rana Bitar and Robert Bensen
We Opened
by Luigi Coppola
A Phantom
by Charles Baudelaire / translated by Robert Bensen
Noir
by Laurel Blossom
Dance Team as Representatives of Our Happiness on Earth
by Laurel Blossom
Almost
by M. L. Brown
Wickerwork, Shallots and Gooseberry Lane
by Terence John
The Offing, an Aubade
by M. L. Brown
Something Broken
by Fabrice B. Poussin
Talk of the Black-Billed Strutters’ Ball
by Gerard Sarnat
Late in the Day
by Gavin Bourke
Plan(t)ets Undying
by Brandon Bennett
West Labyrinth Street
by Terence John
Circus
by Fraser Sutherland
Theomastix
by Danae Younge
With regard to anthropocentrism
by Terence John
Magically Delicious
by Scott Jacky Parker
pothole
by Anne Leigh Parrish
Living with Death
by Gavin Bourke
in the absence of
by Rob Stone
Fool’s Gold
by Mercury-Marvin Sunderland
I Met a Man
by Jeremy Gadd
Was So Sudden
by Gavin Bourke
Fall
by Christina E. Petrides
Far Within Us #5
by Mark A. Murphy
The Setting
by Frederick Pollack
The Secret
by Mark Niedzwiedz
under the eight-mile bridge
by DB Cox
A Picture Window
by Kal M. Telage
Totalitarianism
by Benjamin Schmitt
Destruction
by Thomas Piekarski
It’s easy
by Terence John
Quarantine
by Morgan D. Bazilian, Ph.D.
reflections of a houseguest
by James Thurgood
Towards the Headlights
by Gavin Bourke
The Heavyweight Champion
by Gavin Bourke
The Stage
by Aimee Nicole
Crowd
by Stephen J. Golds
Gains
by Jean Pierre Nikuze