Poetry, CNF, and Graphic Essays.

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issue 12.3

Jennifer Smith Gray

Gale Force And every man knew, as the captain did too, T'was the witch of November come stealin' “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” – Gordon Lightfoot The...

Tyrel Kessinger

Wizened I am part star remnant,yes, but I am all turncoat body.   Occasionally I forget howfrail the bones are.Though I do remember that we like to...

Hannah Marshall

Joy Which lives in the throat.Which, silenced, becomes a plum or a firework.Which bugles oxygen into every synapse.Which brings forth daffodils.Which, when confronted with a...

Carol Everett Adams

Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition, Union Station, Kansas City I pay a little extra for an audio wand so a narrator can serve me a pair of...

Barbara Daniels

Nine Steps That Might Ease Despair Let the sun tip a sea of bluefrom the hood of your carto your open eyes. Touch the sticky needles...

Janet MacFadyen

What I do about the nightmares beforegoing into battle Ibandage my head     light campfirespull the covers down    no one can predictwhat happens on the plains...

Zebulon Huset

Gravitas Dad, I've lost my skip.Yesterday along a lake I never asked the name ofI lowered my shoulder like you taught, caught the flat rockin...

Jeff Mock

Caution Creates Its Own Gravity It becomes more difficult to leaveThe dollhouse. The sky is a sort  Of trap. It won’t let goOf your eyes. One...

Brian Baumgart

Incomplete Metamorphosis I am a symptom of a larger paradigm: men who awaken from a sleep we’ve never fallen into   Some might say we’re born into it,...

Lesley Wheeler

Could Have Done Worse At least, when I gave my children neurodivergence,I also gave them a sunny father andsandy local greens. At least, among allthe...

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