Selected Poems

DESERTED AUTUMN
Kenneth Frost

SHOOTING HEROIN ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF TOWN
Louis E. Bourgeois

MIDNIGHT CICADA
Tracy Thomas

TO THE THREAD BY WHICH EVERYTHING HANGS
Philip Dacey

SUTTEE
Virginia Aronson

Selected Prose

THE OVERLOOK
Chris Belden

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ISSUE NUMBER SIX

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ISSUE NUMBER SEVEN

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ISSUE NUMBER NINE

CHEMO

needle leaves
scarlet berries
inner bark

yews’
punishing chemistry
strikes so hard

I vomit
can’t walk
to the end

of my block
as if it’s my body
nine beetles eat

vivid stains on their
cream-colored shells
what they chew

gone
to salts
in the ravenous soil

Barbara Daniels