Summer wanes and bends
Towards the arc of autumn.
The cornfields like plebes
Shine green in their
Seeming regiments
Of near perfect rows.
A miasma of blue chicory
And Queen Anne's lace
Undulate in the rear-view
Mirror.
Katydids, vapid
Stutter in the dark.
The swell of moving on
Is heartbreaking.
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Issue 55
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Editor's Note
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Poetry
- Abayomi Animashaun
- Justin Skylar Belote
- Brenda Butka
- Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor
- MRB Chelko
- Marcus Civin
- Susan Comninos
- Rebecca Cook
- William G Davies Jr.
- Russell Susumu Endo
- Victoria Givotovsky
- Ashwin Kannan
- Anja Konig
- Leonard Kress
- Tim B Muren
- Jeffrey Perkins
- Gretchen Primack
- Billy Reynolds
- Austin Smith
- Joseph Stanton
- David Thacker
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Fiction
Issue > Poetry
William G Davies Jr.
William G. Davies Jr. shares ten acres of rural Pennsylvania woodlands with his wife, Theresa and numerous wildlife. He considers himself a prose raconteur of humble ability, and has been crafting words in anonymity until now.Poetry
Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor
Feminine Ending
Poetry
Abayomi Animashaun
Beggar's Colony'
Poetry
Justin Skylar Belote
Elegy With No One Speaking