Issue 8 - 8 January 2019
Aakriti Kuntal — Lilith, Vines and Frailty:
Agunbiade Kehinde — The Night My Father Gave Us A Morbid Lamp:
Akanksha Goel — Terrorists aren’t born, they are made:
Alahana Isgrigg — Gone and Younger Years:
Alec Hershman — Lilacs, Mother’s Day and As When the Truth...:
Allan Johnston — Defining the Moon and Arse Poetica:
Amirah Al Wassif — for those who don’t know chocolate!:
Amy Soricelli — Poets are Made in Fourth Grade:
Angela Imhanguelo — Broken Bones:
Arsalan Chalabi — Lovesick:
Babafemi Babatunde — Abigail, Kadara and Grief of Jefe:
Brian Finch — See You Soon-Nan and Self Destruction:
Brinda Sarma — What happens when the ghost of your past takes over you or A 1986 Onida TV:
Brittany Hailer — The Shepherd:
Brooks Robards — Call of the Wild:
Bruce McRae — Rolling The Stone, The Lost Years and Rain At Night:
Bryan C. Tan — It Sounds Like, She did not come here to fly and I Lie in My Sleep:
Carl Scharwath & Sharon Dina Rose Regala — Sidewalked, US... Our Story and Ekphrastic Poem:
Carla Schwartz — Ashes:
Ceinwen E Cariad Haydon — Exposed, Flood Plain and Recycled Memories:
Clara Burghelea — An abundance of holy things, Self-exile and Lexical Displacement:
Cleo Griffith — Houses, The Artistry of Plain Soil and The Days the Clouds Don’t Want:
Colin James — Choosing the Right Poeticism:
Cordelia Hanemann — Jasmine, Pyrrhic Victories Memoir of a Southern Belle and Who’s Counting:
Dah — Orange, Frost, Drought and Varnished Eyes:
Dan Morey — Ayahuasca:
David B. Prather — The Expulsion, Hyperbole and Resuscitation:
David Masciotra — Noise Pollution, Love Letter and Gore Vidal, RIP:
Debashish Majumdar — Interview and Gone, Mother Gone!:
Debasis Tripathy — Distressful:
Debasish Parashar — Perfumed Gossamer and Drunken Selfies:
Deleteh Bank — You Were Not There:
Eduard Schmidt-Zorner — Tarot cards from a drawer:
Edward Lee — Never Whole, Prisoner and Bone Deep Despair:
Eliza Segiet — Labyrinth, Jokester and Inverted Time:
Elizabeth Cohen — Something, Not the Other Thing and The Possible:
Elizabeth Higgins — The End:
Elizabeth Paxson — The Jellyfish Has No Brain, Unyielding Grasp and Too Much Light:
F. R. Kesby — Tempus Edax Rerum, Shut That Window and It was the longest summer...:
Fabrice Poussin — Scripts, She Dreams and Snows of May:
Fotoula Reynolds — Back to life, Transferring and Sculptured:
George Elliott Clarke — Wisdom of Solomon VI., Wisdom of Solomon VIII. and Wisdom of Solomon IX.:
Guinotte Wise — Vicinity, Hello Eighty and Gray Day:
Hannah Haydt — The Forgiving Fudge, To the Wind and Wave and Syncopated:
Huda Tariq — Tried and tired:
Ifrah Kayenat — A Conveyance, Frozen Feelings and Yearned:
Ipsita Ganguli — Rain:
James Deighan — The young lad’s bell:
Jan Ball — People-watching, Travel Rag and Two French Men:
Jane Moteea — The Missing:
Jennifer Maloney — The Floor, Wanderlust and Pragmatism:
Jerry Chiemeke — Cravings for a Vacation, Sneaky Old Friend and Save Your Strength:
Jessica Barksdale — Bon Soir is a Feeling Not a Time and Clarins:
Joe Barca — Winter Wheat, Holiday and Yuletide:
Joseph S. Pete — A Void Sucking Away at Every Sunday:
Josh Jennings — Silence:
Julia Parbhoo — Words, Proud and What About Poetry:
Katy Scrogin — Winter Testimony, Through an October Window and Square One, Again:
Kelvin Kellman — Ajoke Bello:
Kenneth Pobo — Cake and Garbage Cans, Sparkling and I’m Under:
Ketaki Datta — My Soul running between Lives, A Post Modern Love Poem and Cage-Free Emotions:
Kevin Ridgeway — At the Donut Shop with Calvin and Dead Celebrities:
Kim Fulton — I kind of thought the alpacas were a metaphor until... and A newsroom after...:
Kristina Krumova — Through the Ladder of the Pantyhose, The Rubber Boots Do Not...:
Kristine Brown — $7.99, The Pricey Date that Wasn’t and Sweet Ennui:
Lauren Scharhag — The Bus Station, The Eighth Kind and Bowie:
Lidia Chiarelli — Poppy Red and Garden in October:
Lisa Stice — Late Harvest Moon and Lullaby for My Dog:
M.J. Iuppa — Un)resolved:
Madhulika Ghose — The Last Moghul:
Manoj Pukhrambam — So Far Away From You:
Mary Shanley — bullet in his head:
Max Sparber — A Wish and The Neighbor:
Mbizo Chirasha — Children of Xenophobia:
Meaghan Quinn — Women’s College, Bees Responding to Overdose and Slow Dance, Bullets:
Nick Toczek — Another Bloody Day, Costa Sin Sol, Spain and Not Quite Kennedy:
Nina Buckless — Dream of Birds and I Am Evidence:
Patricia Nelson — Woman of Grey, Circles and Exile:
Paul Kindlon — Poor Players:
Paul Robert Mullen — evolution, near the ritz, roulette:
Peter Nolan — A Culture of Worries:
Pramila Khadun — The wanderer, What next and Separation:
Rachael Ikins — Alien Skin, Dawn after Killing Frost and sun wars:
Raeesa Usmani — Welcome to the Bazaar:
Ranjana Sharan Sinha — Turning Back Time and Poetry My 2 am Friend:
Riham Adly — I’ve Always Loved that Prostitute:
Rizzalyn Bernarte — Bonfire of Lost Daughters, Flight 32 of Guilt Airways and Part Flesh...:
Ron Riekki — Guns = Disease = Guns, It’s Hard Not to Piss People Off... and My Mother Had Two Jobs...
Russell Streur — Genesis Story and The Noose:
Sara Siddiqui Chansarkar — My Wedding Day:
Sayan Aich Bhowmik — Arson:
Shabir Ahmad Mir — Ghazal:
Sharena Lee Satti — Alpha, Finding Your Voice and Age Is But a Number:
Steven Lebow — White, as human bone:
Sukrita Paul Kumar — Himalayan Tsunami:
Susannah Violette — Brandt, Margret and You and the Raccoon:
Ted Bernal Guevara — A Manageable War:
Toby Hall — Itch and Wonder:
Trisha Rose — I Cheated On My Soul:
Tyler Robert Sheldon — High Stakes and Raccoon:
Ugonnaora Owoh — vortex:
Ursula Nichowski — Electra:
Wil Michael Wrenn — Full Moon Night, Mystery and Someday After:
Wilda Morris — Reminder, Ishmael Reflects on the Try-Works Fire and Melville in Love:
William J. Tell — Drunk on banker’s blood:
Wolf Kevin Martin — Burnt Sage Again:
(AR Rahman’s 1947 Earth Theme Music)
BONUS:
Alfred K. LaMotte — Gift, As You Awaken and Pronouns:
R. Bremner — Monk sweeps in the window:
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