Sing Me a River
Steve Carr Pa had worn that old gray coat until it was almost nothing but a rag that hung on his big frame. It smelled of rancid venison, catfish and […]
Satsuma
Kara Goughnour is a queer writer and documentarian living in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is the 2018 winner of the Gerald Stern Poetry Award and has work published or forthcoming in Third Point Press, Riggwelter Journal, The Southampton Review, and others. Follow her on Twitter @kara_goughnour or read her collected and […]
Messages from 1986
Alicia Aitken ‘Susan woz ‘ere ’86 Xx’ is drawn in faded green marker across the naked wall. The summer of 1986 mum let us have a small party before the […]
Dragging the River
Knowing the truth of it, he marvelsat the red grape’s resiliency,how it contains itself even aftera fall. What matters, what doesn’t.Those simplistic thoughtsdissipating in the coffee’s sadswirl. And what they wanted,truly wanted, even more thanthat first plunge of lips to privateflesh or the forbidden highlightsin the book of dreams never […]
I am Womb
I, not a goddess, nor am I a repressed perfect mother, forfeited, warm, cold for your perception, command. I am at the helm of myself now, my clay steers this ship, my love a sand drift, millions of grains, heart a cavernous wave. I swallow the ebb, flow of myself. […]
The Bee in the Calyx
there was a tendermuse-like moment of charm such an Apollonian tearwhen the cute bee set down on a noble rosein the kind calyx of the bloom full dreamy splendor the gentle sun smiled at that time at it fairy-likeoh a sweet morning gracefulness of raysthe owl stayed with the courage […]
Haiku Collection by David Estringel
“Angels in the Morning”As you lay sleeping,pale shadows yawn and stretch o’er me to kiss your shoulder. * “As I Wake” The alarm clock rings. You hit snooze, suspending time, holding me […]
