Walk across, ankle deep not much of a river for its exalted name Rio Grande in high Chihuahuan summer,…
First Aid: A Poem by Rose Connelly
Once upon a time, I took a class in CPR. I pressed my hands on strangers’ chests, back when we…
we should have gone to mexico: A Poem by Henry Brown
half-smile glimpse to left cut through shades of early morning there, where blank billboards make last fading skyline-lights dance…
A Box Upon the Sea: A Poem by Martha Deed
I set out now in a box upon the sea —Charles Olson Last lines of Maximus v2 They say…
Liminal States: A Poem by Gerard Sarnat
1. Rooster in the Night No. 2 The shallows in earnest, candles sputter, burn molecules might fuel extra hours not…
Detention at the Border: A Poem by Elizabeth Spencer Spragins
a ringtail nestles deep within the cactus core— spikes without conscience honed to hard and hollow points surround the concrete…
Border Poems by Moinak Dutta
First Encounter My first tryst with border has been a hindi flick Filled with a lot of patriotic fervor, …
The Wall: A Poem by Claudia M. Stanek
I enter the wrong country code, trying to phone a contact in Krakow while in Berlin. When a man answers…
This is the Part Where They Misgender You: A Poem by Kate Pashby
“mommy, is that a girl or a boy?” inquires the child in the stroller and I want to yell, neither!…
Two Poems About Alzheimer’s by Robert Hirschfield
Pilgrimage She plods beyond the four pullets in the frig. Her path to knowing must be…
Daisy Buchanon, 2000: A Prose Poem by Palmer Smith
When Daisy used to go out to a party, I invariably noticed her calves and her tiny, delicate feet. I don’t…
Passage: A Poem by Peter Goodwin
At the end of a small shallow creek home to ducks and fishes its shores wooded and marshy— There! Looking…
Madison County, NC: A Poem by Andrew Hanson
In Madison County, the hollies hide a house that holds in it the image of desire. Its timber splits wind,…
Under a Palm Tree: A Poem by R. Bremner
Under a palm tree I examine my seersucker soul and try to figure how it fits in a hand-me-down world.…
The Aunt Dot Moon by Ellen Tillson Parker
The Aunt Dot Moon I look up On an August night And see her Round eyes Bright cheeks Wide…
A Wicked Story: A Poem by Kathleen McCann
A Wicked Story She’s tired of pacing the widow’s walk, waiting. No one returns. Nothing to tell, no gold.…
Crossing: A Poem by Helen Kay
Crossing When life is overgrown, she craves the heath, bright sphagnum hair and heather bows, its lack of sapping trees.…
Wolf at the Door: Fiction by Cristina Ferrandez
What do I know? Every night I feel like I’m going to bed with death’s breath upon my nape. I…
Forging New Frontiers: Non Fiction by Ginny Riedman-Dangler
She would sit quietly with a pensive look, with the sound of the television in the background. It was often…
Kind to Kind: Fiction by John O’Donovan
It was late in the evening after our first winter snowstorm. I had gone to the well to draw…
The Corsair and the Poets: Non Fiction by Edward Shaw
by Edward Shaw
