Poetry: “Always Something Unpleasant to Do on Saturday” by Christopher Clauss

The sugar maples survived the taps
their viscous blood dripping into galvanized pails […]

Poetry: “Decaf” by Jonathan B. Aibel

The rest of the coffee
was disturbed by nightmares, […]

Poetry: “Can’t Tell You I Love You Until I’ve Had a 6 Pack or Several” by Justine Lynell Mercado

Abuelo falls into the ice chest
chugs another Modelo, admits […]

Poetry: “Clockwise Dreams” by Holly Day

Robots don’t believe in ghosts, they attribute
the wheezing and clicking of late-night phantoms […]

POETRY: “Lotería” by Philip Kobylarz

At the gate, bottles with cut lips. Crypts of grass cuttings. Moth wings. Stationary […]

POETRY: “Eavesdropping On The Redwoods” by Sharon Lopez Mooney

I thought I heard some tough young redwoods
trying to get the ancients’ attention
but the elder trees are not interested in prattle, […]

POETRY: “Ribs” by Corey Hill

I’d like to know the
Funny thing in your ribs. […]

POETRY: “Music Lessons” by Ellis Elliott

I can tell you about the student learning
by holding a bag of beans in her palm
in order to feel the weight of the notes […]

POETRY: “Hawk Over Nantasket Beach” by Sarath Reddy

At first my eyes said
a kite hovering a hundred feet above
but there was no thread attached,
no child anchored in sand, arms outstretched,
countering the coastal gale. […]

POETRY: “The Remover Of Obstacles” by Sarath Reddy

Deities sat perched on temple parapets,
concrete birds gleaming in the Georgia sun. […]