by Scott T. Starbuck | Nov 8, 2024 | Poetry
Beached Whale by Scott T. Starbuck Illustration by Zyanya Cittalli Beached Whale wasn’t dead but sheriff feltbeyond savingso I sat near her eyeuntil life-light faded. Whale came backin my dreamslike stirred embersof driftwood fire. Dream-whale swaminto my dying...
by Tor Strand | Nov 8, 2024 | Poetry
Depot To Another Form of Existence by Tor Strand Photo by Annelie Turner Depot To Another Form of Existence When the cape trail ended and I couldn’t,I climbed from its edge— light formed oceanlike a story being read aloud— you lie in the crook of a lip-shaped treeand...
by Dzvinia Orlowsky | Nov 8, 2024 | Poetry
Red by Dzvinia Orlowsky Red In 2020, I would have believedthe red bird anchoring itself on the lowestbranch of the slumping lilac bushin early March came to show me that bright beauty exists where you least expect it, that I still had time to see, fear-free, a...
by Celia Easton Koehler | Jun 18, 2024 | Poetry
POETRY This is an Intersection by Celia Easton Koehler Illustration by Annabelle Bullock this is an intersection the picnic table arranges spaceconstructs a room gravel island between street and railroad towing enforced at all times once red now pink tow truck...
by Jasper Beck | May 2, 2024 | Poetry
POETRY Parasaurolophus Song by Jasper Beck Photo by Viggo Beck Parasaurolophus Song maybe like a saxophone playedthrough cranial crest, crooningheartthrob blues, but scaled up,so much bigger than us, we assumethey ruled the earth. maybe like a bull elk bugle, a...
by Kit Evans | Apr 25, 2024 | Poetry
POETRY Newberry Lava Love by Kit Evans Photo by Daniel Tankersley Newberry Lava Love Lemon vodka on the lips, your huge handwrapped around my whole fist, hurdlingthrough forested slopes in my Jeep.The pines end. Pocked rock starts.Petrified lava flows from 7,000 years...