March Contributors
Izzy Nameth Beck, Allyn Bernkopf, David Calogero Centorbi, Cat Dixon, Deron Eckert, R.M. Engelhardt, Marc Frazier, Devon Fulford, Bex Hainsworth, Adele Hally, Jeff Hardin, Katie Johntz, David Lee, Naomi Bess Leimsider, Joshua Lillie, KG Miles, Tempest Miller, James Morehead, Yvonne Morris, Blair Nelsen, Hailey Paetzel, Cara Paleschi, · R L · powell, Prahi Rajput, Mikki Rios, Brad Rose, Mykyta Ryzhykh, Maisie Kennedy Sherriff, Kalina Smith, Annie Williams, Brandon Yu
Poetry
March Highlights
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anything that casts a shadow
by Joshua Lillie
“I’m what happens when you surprise an armadillo / with a weekend trip to Pensacola. / I’m the face in the crowd that you can’t quite place. / Am I your uncle? I’m too young to be your uncle.”
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the legend of thumbelina as generational trauma: glosa on sylvia plath’s “lady lazarus”
by Kalina Smith
“The apples didn’t fall far / from the gnarled family tree, / covered in cockchafers / who kill the lilies and violet, / burning every shred of beauty down / in just a moment’s flash.”
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remedy
by Bex Hainsworth
“It's been fifteen years since I allowed / her fussing, but now we both indulge. / I can’t say which balm soothes the burn. / When she slips teabags into my suitcase, / I smile, hold close her charms.”
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museum for the somnambulists
by James Morehead
“We’re together in the galleries / holding hands and pointing / Your father joyous after Canadian Thanksgiving / my father’s father unreadable over a poker hand…”
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ass
by Tempest Miller
“A donkey bites my hair / a bear hides in a tree / a bear hides in a tree / but the donkey kicks back legs into a woodburner / and lets go…”
five poems
by Strider Marcus Jones
“…those leaves on the pavement / rejected with resentment / turning brown / no history written down.”
an inquiry into the death of pan
by Matthew DeLuca
“I heard his voice as they closed the books on him: How interesting, he said. How interesting.”
three poems
by Joshua Martin
“between LaRkS: visions / repellent ontological / marching = [hoofs] / [ducks / silk TuNNeLs], / ; ; ; ; ; | ‘what soft embers strain like passenger / sublimity’ | ; ; ; ; ; = = = = = > combing JellY”
the antinomian fire this time
by Ron Whitehead
“The bone man dances circles / round the subterranean gloom”
milgrytoel
by Simon Collinson
“Who ittee naarvy bas lippings of jellied wellypelly and neepled litilats…”
the disappearance of the ginger tabby and the unraveling of mrs. macdonald
by Jordan Trethewey
“Sometime after her hard military man died, / the old widow next door began to lure / neighbourhood pets to her unused red barn.”
ressurection (upon an incident of dying birds, midwest usa, spring 2023)
by Keith Hoerner
“No lift / Force / No air - / Foil.”
six poems
by David L O’Nan
“I have tonight, the stars wounded in saltwater tongues / Can’t hear the whispering with the static of waves in constant battle.”
your brainstem at 4 a.m.
by Mark Belair
“uspecting
you’re an extra in your life / others play the leading roles / your credit at the end
will read / waiter #4”
four poems
by Chuck Kramer
“Entrepreneurs and businessmen / whose humanity was silenced / by ambition and empty wallets, / they took solace in devil whiskey…”
crow’s breakfast
by L. Ward Abel
“blood-red crows / gorge / on a shining / mid-air / breakfast.”
working two
by Thomas M. McDade
“Pregnant and tattooed / Apron full of bucks…”
now don't you feel base, or for coarser beauty
by Mark Parsons
“Beauty that makes you want to vomit like the smell of vomit makes you want to vomit…”
full circle
by Sanjeev Sethi
“serenity is my surround sound. / I have opted to go earless.”
dread hallelujah zombie love
by R.M. Engelhardt
“After the smoke / The clouds evaporate / The radiation descends / Upon the one & all / The rich & poor”
three poems
by Edward Lee
“I gave an opinion / to the gods of nothing, / their anger a bitter wind / that makes my eyes water…”
two poems
by Wayne Mason
“…and without / that flower of / hope / I am coils, cogs, and gears.”
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!”