Two Poems by Christine M. Du Bois
Metamorphosis
No one asks the caterpillar.Survival has selected her destinylong before she swallowsher first lush, trembling leaf--sending her, impelling herto commit herselfwillingly,even eagerlyto the tiny cage of her...
Three Poems by Yvette Neisser
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE FROM MY FORMER SELF
I lost everything:the contours of the body I knewthe housethe identity of wife/motherhalf of a couplea name that began with Mrs.
Everything...
Day Job by Allison Whittenberg
After a night of therapeutic bottle and blunt passing
He wakes on earth at 5AM
In a lumpy bed
He goes to the airport in his overalls
Brandishing a handkerchief
He scrubs...
Two Poems by Anna Idelevich
Early in the morning
Early in the morning jelly smokes over the water,
put semolina and millet in the...
Autumn Fading-Director’s Cut by William T. Blackburn
Green*
Fleshy limbs fingerpaint the sky
That wondrous joy of life bedecked in emerald sheaves
Parasols twirling, swirling overhead
Shade from a beaming sun
Meal for all things living
Red
Cavorting flame upon the...