“If you have come here to help me you are wasting your time, but if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let’s work together.”
— Lila Watson
Index of Contributors
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Issue 1
Delicious Cotton Candy Sky 2
Managing Editor’s Welcome Statement
Vijay R. Nathan 3
BluePenDwg8 13
Jean Wolff
Medusa 14
Tani Arness
Figurine 15
Tani Arness
the day Colston’s statue went in the drink 16
Jerome Berglund
I Gave Up Hope and Died and It Worked! 17
Thomas Fucaloro
Controlling Fear Without Getting Frightened 18
Thomas Fucaloro
SELF-DOUBT 19
Joe Woodward
A TALE OF TWO LIVES 20
Prema Ramanathan
Wild 21
t.m. thomson
Where to Go? 24
P James Norris
When Plant Life Imitates Arteries 25
Scott Raven Tarazevits
Plantification 26
Scott Raven Tarazevits
The Promise 28
Samantha Maldjian
The Koan of Community 30
Rick Jarow
Quarantine Partner 33
Olena Jennings
Nature Scene With Runaway 35
Olena Jennings
Reparations 36
Carol Flake Chapman
Where We Talked of Witches, Witches 38
Katharyn Howd Machan
SUNSHINE QUARANTINE 39
Elmo Shade
SO SAYS LAIKA, THE LEGENDARY SPACE DOG’S GHOST 40
Eryn Hiscock
Cohiba 41
David Lawton
ACROSS TIME 42
George Ryan
“Fiction” versus “Fact” 43
Gerald Kamens
quiet together 46
Dan Brook
Tree = Truth 48
Alan Weltzien
Legend 50
Mike McHone
New stage 51
Andy Oram
Baby Boy 53
Donna Harlan
Smile 4/2020 54
Julie Gesin
Merry-Go-Round 56
Clark Zlotchew
A Warrior Song 57
Herbert Woodward Martin
the salvation armoire 58
David D’Ettore
Deliver Me 59
G Timothy Gordon
The English Language as a Brown Woman’s Burden 60
Ruvani de Silva
Unmasked 62
Josef Krebs
MONOPOLY 63
Kenneth Pobo
SKIP BULLIED 64
Kenneth Pobo
Self-shielded 65
Dr. Emily Bilman
HOW AND WHY I LEARNED TO FLY 66
Faith Steinberg
Vaporous 69
Diane Sahms
Listen, now the power 70
Carla Barkman
Five Fancies for the Future 71
Cleo Griffith
Anarchist Blues 72
Jack M. Freedman
solid things 73
Charlene Moskal
Definition 74
Nathaniel Terrell
WORKPLACE 76
Trent Busch
Viewing Christo Sketches at the Austin Museum of Art 77
David Cappella
Zen Thoughts 78
Diana Raab
We Were Too Young to be That Old 79
Sean Murphy
Vera’s Butterflies 80
Diane Elayne Dees
While Sitting on a Bench 81
in Central Park
Guillermo Lanza
Toy Truck 82
Carmina Masoliver
The World Is in Me 83
Catherine Coundjeris
Someone's Idea 84
Philip Kienholz
The Medical Student 85
Luke Patitsas
Loss and Gain 86
F Cade Swanson
BREATHING IN MINNEAPOLIS 88
Patrick Cabello Hansel
Reyes Peak Trail 90
Paul Willis
REPLACING SHOPPING CARTS AT WEGMAN’S 91
Tyler James Russell
Dumping Ash Trays Is Messy Business 92
Samantha Terrell
Statue of Liberty 93
Marianne Lyon
Dust 95
Lee Broda
Lament 96
Denise Thompson-Slaughter
My Ghosts 97
Denise Thompson-Slaughter
The Color of Miracles 98
Cheryl Boyer
Never Breathe Again 100
M.A. Dennis
nine haiku 104
M.A. Dennis
Skin deep 106
Ro Kraus
Empathy 108
Anne Bower
The Silence Treatment 109
James McKee
A Normal Life 110
Frank Dullaghan
Accountancy Packages 111
Frank Dullaghan
Their Day Will Come 112
Linda Conroy
Returning During A Late August Storm on the Prairie 113
Elle Cee Wallace
The March, A Golden Shovel 114
Mary Redman
Angry Americans 2020 115
Suzi Kaye
A Relationship with God Worked Out in a Quartet 116
S. T. Brant
Seven Days of Pride 117
Bruce E. Whitacre
Badajoz Train Station in Spain 122
M. C. Aster
Peas in Purgatory 124
M. C. Aster
Adieu Haiku 125
Vijay R. Nathan
Above Us Only Sky 126
Vijay R. Nathan
Summer 129
Cooper Young
after life 131
Zac Kline
From Happy Lovers 133
Oleksandr Frazé-Frazénko
Trans. Olena Jennings
Frozen 135
Creativity Trust
The Other Women 136
Creativity Trust
When I Catch A Rainbow 137
Creativity Trust
I AM THE QUEER YOU HATE 138
Joanna C. Valente
Wine Dark 140
George Stein
BIOS 141
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Issue 2
Sunflower Sky
Editor’s Welcome Statement
Vijay R. Nathan 3
Diagnosis
Ronald J. Pelias 8
Carry the Fire
Nikki Marrone 11
I Am Tempered Steel
Clarence Carter Boucher 15
On Day 10 of Quarantine, I Unblock my Father on Facebook
Regina DiPerna 16
Mostly Harmless: An Essay on Cutting
Melissa Jenks 20
I got into this accident, you see.
Katreana Bellew 25
Sunken Battleship
Sarah Veley 27
Stopping in Dreamsville
Jerrice J. Baptiste 28
Grief or Loneliness
Susan Swavely 30
Late Night
Ellen Mannix 42
WHILE YOU WERE DEAD
Cassy Kalley 47
EDITOR’S PRIZE: THE WELL
Julian Matthews 50
An Indian-American Travels in Poland On a Night Train
Vijay R. Nathan 55
Berlin
DS Will 57
Partition; A Gentle Reminder
Gursahiba Gill 59
Interview with a Moderately Modest Poet
Z.M. Wise 61
Liturgy
Krista Robey 65
The Only Reason to Quit Smoking
Straton Rushing 68
Sounds of You
Kirt Shineman 72
Momma’s Recipe
Jasmine Harris 77
Black Questions
Jasmine Harris 78
TIME
Ben Sumrall 80
Timeless Wonder
Michael Perlman 83
Liz wakes up.
Pedro Lino 84
Generous Genarist
Scottt Raven 87
Cholera in entucky: 1833; Ghosts of an Epidemic
Kevin Lane Dearinger 91
a conversation between me & my dead fig tree
Julia Marks 97
“What’s An International School?”
Sujana Gowni 102
Nonno
Pavle Radonic 107
EDITOR’S PRIZE: Defunding the Police State
Nicholas Karavatos 108
The Ecology of Hitchhiking
Julius Galacki 111
This Moment
Pauline Saade 113
Divine Goddess
Pauline Saade 115
When a girl enters a forest
Natasha Zarin 116
AUTHOR BIOS 118
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Issue 3
Editor’s Welcome Statement
Scott Raven Tarazevits 2
Table of Contents 3
Morning Prayers 6
Christina M Rau 6
An Ancient Wisdom 7
Christina M Rau 7
Perspective 9
Nehizena Osagie 9
Know your strengths 10
Nehizena Osagie 10
Limits 11
Nehizena Osagie 11
When Nephew Becomes Son 12
Patty Bamford 12
Empty 14
Hugh Cook 15
You Ask for a Metaphor for My Poems 16
Editor’s Choice Award Winner 16
Gloria Heffernan 16
Wisdom 18
Scottt Raven 18
Time Tides 20
Joyce Nash 20
Body Scars 21
Duane L Herrmann 21
My meditation 22
Kristen Wood 22
The Wisdom of Age 23
Charles Rammelkamp 23
We Ain’t Ever Getting Older (Bop) 25
Jacob R. Moses 25
torch 25
Amanda Meyer 26
eight & eighteen 27
Jamilla Vandyke-bailey 27
A Love Poem 28
KateLin Carsrud 28
Girl Boy 29
KateLin Carsrud 29
Insuccessful 30
Thomas Fucaloro 30
To Bear Witness 31
Tureygua Inaru 31
Thank you God 33
Ry Downey 33
Awake 35
Ruth Mota 35
Celebrating Seventy 37
Ruth Mota 37
Feather Pillows 38
Kory Vance 38
avocado 39
Kathleen Hellen 39
My sun rose from the West today 40
Sara Hailstone 40
A Way Back Home 42
Linda Conroy 42
A man walking inside a painting 43
Ivan de Monbrison 43
The rocks by the sea 44
Ivan de Monbrison 44
Know This 45
Anton Violazzi 45
Echoes of Sex 46
Editor’s Choice Award Winner 46
TA Harrison 46
This Body is a Garden 47
Vijay R. Nathan 47
Temperate 48
Allison Whittenberg 48
Flailing 49
James Gabriel 49
The Ordinary 51
Oneness 52
N.T. Chambers 52
Biographies 53
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Issue 4
Cover Image: “Gold Mind” by Alison Cimmet
Editors’ Welcome Statement
Vijay R. Nathan
Hello, Hades
Stephanie McConnell
How I learned to live
Emma Jahoda-Brown
Just Be
Bruce E. Whitacre
The Shards of Glass You Created
Kimberly Johnson
The Shifting Sands
Vita Lerman
Becoming Punxsutawney Phil (A Groundhog Day Film Ekphrasis)
Julie Benesh
My Past Lives Library
Vijay R. Nathan
What PTSD Feels Like
Elizabeth Gade
Convergence
Alicia Hoffman
When There are no Clouds I Stare at the Wall
Chris Allen
I don't want to go to Hell, I burned my
Gale Acuff
Landscape of Me
Cindy Appleby
iambigram
Scottt Raven
Dysania
Jane Glasser
Pavor Nocturnus (583)
Peter J. Grieco
Thaw
Sylvia Candiote
Before the Fat Stigma
MK Punky
In Infinity Spinning
William T Blackburn
The S p i r a l
James B. Nicola
in the equipoise
Ken Goodman
Watch Guts
Rich Glinnen
Einstein’s Mandala
Robert René Galván
Editor’s Choice Poetry
Poem Mondays
Whitney Weisenberg
Meditation While Listening
to old jazz standard, ‘Sunny’
Allan Lake
The Collector of Ginger Jars
Paula M. Rodriguez
Sisyphus
Mark Martyre
Nine Lives
David Rojas
Lacuna
Locklyn Wilchynski
I Made a Decision
Purbasha Roy
Ellipses
Cole Robertsen
Homecoming
Eric Wittkopf
Clements of Truth
Andrés Colón
Maybe from another life
Erin Jamieson
On Modernity
Rupert Pip
Downstream
Erika Seshadri
Pride Week at the CIA
Tony Santi