June Contributors
L. Ward Abel, Laszlo Aranyi, Mark Belaire, Cody Cook, Dario Cvencek, DAH, R.M. Engelhardt, Tim Frank, Christian Garduno, GTimothy Gordon, Bruce Greenhalgh, Noll Griffin, Keith Hoerner, Connor Hultman, Strider Marcus Jones, Chris Kads, Chuck Kramer, Edward Lee, Zev Levinson, David Luntz, Wayne Mason, rob mcclennan, Thomas McDade, Stephen C. Middleton, David P. Miller, Tempest Miller, Mark Parsons, M. Kelley Peach, Sanjeev Sethi, Elizabeth Shanaz, Brandon Shane, Eric Subpar, Grady VanWright, Philip Venzke, Mark Wadley, Ron Whitehead
Poetry
Torpedos
A Disappearing Virtual Poetry (Micro)Chap by John Jeffire
John Jeffire delivers five experimental poems in this disappearing virtual (micro)chap Torpedos that speak of love and loss. DON’T MISS OUT!!!
two poems
by Bruce Greenhalgh
“Rain fell / It had no choice, / what with gravity and all that.”
in air and ear
by David P. Miller
“Alive most between rain and drop, the stays between one strike, the next, each with its ear-beat.”
boom-boom-boom
by Dario Cvencek
“the buzzing of the city – paused!
the chirping of the birds – paused!
the laughter of the children – paused!”
three poems
by M. Kelley Peach
“The chorus of Mr. Ford’s / Children sing a song of sorrow. / A dirge voiced in screeching rubber tones.”
three poems
by Brandon Shane
“I touch his cheek, / and he emerges after a decade / consuming the roots of his daydreams…”
five poems
by Cody Cook
“Some take the blood as ink, / To write what they cannot know- / A grief they hold no claim to.”
grimso tale to outlast fear
by Zev Levinson
“Children bestride pulsation evernigh Slickening eyebeams betray such wonderfolk Tender this expedition innocent and scarred Outlasting fear as Echidius Stumple did”
three poems
by Stephen C. Middleton
“So, tonight we dance / In the town under the mountain / & tomorrow / …all fall down.”
two poems
by Strider Marcus Jones
“drinking absinthe together, hand rolling and smoking cigars- / being is, what it really is…”
a poet’s path
by Ron Whitehead
“Make love with thunder, / laugh with the roaring wind.”
smokestack
by Noll Griffin
“There’s a hollow in the sofa that can still support a shadow…”
five poems
by Conor Hultman
“…no shoes or socks at the scene / dense woods near interstate 65 / he is known to authorities as woody"
momma said be nice
by Chris Kads
“When the men retire / so do the rules / instilled by their mothers.”
sunday school poems
by Gale Acuff
“After Sunday School today I warned my teacher that she's going to burn because she said Hell and damn again and she says them a lot but she told me that she says them for instructional purposes only…”
four poems
by Philip Venzke
“Labyrinths razed underground. / Contortions on the blacktop / create an ancient, lost alphabet; / speak an unspoken language.”
we stitch ourselves like bridges
by DW Baker
“We say nothing / but the rumbling of wheels on concrete…”
two poems
by rob mclennan
“Sleep, into. The objects one might soothe. Emerge, if you can. If you will. Irregular, a single centre.”
the spiritual and the profane
by Tempest Miller
“All the apprentices I keep are STEM and therefore a bunch of elbowing pricks.“
the hotel galvez
by Grady VanWright
“Join us," they murmur, / voices hollow as seashells held to dead ears, / a chorus of futures washed away.”
two poems
by Christian Garduno
“I pressed flowers for you / maybe they’ll get half of what you say / seventy-five years from now.”
Chimera
A Disappearing Virtual Hybrid (Micro)Chap by Eva Alter
Eva Alter takes the reader on her search for rhythm in disruption via five experimental poems and discursive essay in this disappearing virtual (micro)chap Chimera. DON’T MISS OUT!!!