poems by Justin Hyde

Poems by Aimee Delong

Cat, Poem, & Notes (poetry & fiction)
by Ralph-Micheal Chiaia

Artwork by Bruce New

Charlie Parker's Garden (poetry) by Puma Perl

Red Mama (artwork/poetry) by Moctezuma Johnson

The Mob (poetry) by Doug Draime

Willie Lepers (music video) by Norman Ball

1 out of 6 by by Rob Plath

The Recipe by Emme Hor

Sometimes Suicidal by Aimee DeLong

Last Night at Southport by Justin Hyde

microwave popcorn haiku by Pete Lee

 

Plotting shadows from the chaos

I see none at noon,
       long ones crimson
                as day dies in the Pacific.

Dead lives turned up right side.
       From dusk it's clear
               what we cast upon the earth --

no seeds, no water, no light.
       Just cacophony slipping through smoke,
               half a million ghosts

etched in cinders by a new moon,
       grid of darkness, spreadsheet nonpareil.
               Or hawks cutting ovals in midnight sky,

mountains askew, smashed by clouds;
       oceans, powder; glaciers on fire; fires, iced.
               Pattern that mark the present in black,

turns history into a bell curve --
       chart of mistakes ripe for awards,
               say, holocaust without equal

or nuclear war of note,
       best tyrant,
               dead children with most bloat.

Book Reviews:

Dancing on Thin Ice by George Anderson (review by Ralph-Michael Chiaia)

92 Rapple by Lyn Lifshin
(review by Helen Peterson)

10 Poems & Ampersands
by Ralph-Michael Chiaia
(review by David McLean)