Summer wanes and bends
Towards the arc of autumn.
The cornfields like plebes
Shine green in their
Seeming regiments
Of near perfect rows.
A miasma of blue chicory
And Queen Anne's lace
Undulate in the rear-view
Mirror.
Katydids, vapid
Stutter in the dark.
The swell of moving on
Is heartbreaking.
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Issue 55
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Editor's Note
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Poetry
- Abayomi Animashaun
- Justin Skylar Belote
- Brenda Butka
- Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor
- MRB Chelko
- Marcus Civin
- Susan Comninos
- Rebecca Cook
- William G Davies Jr.
- Russell Susumu Endo
- Victoria Givotovsky
- Ashwin Kannan
- Anja Konig
- Leonard Kress
- Tim B Muren
- Jeffrey Perkins
- Gretchen Primack
- Billy Reynolds
- Austin Smith
- Joseph Stanton
- David Thacker
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Fiction
Issue > Poetry
William G Davies Jr.
William G. Davies Jr. shares ten acres of rural Pennsylvania woodlands with his wife, Theresa and numerous wildlife. He considers himself a prose raconteur of humble ability, and has been crafting words in anonymity until now.Poetry
MRB Chelko
Ode to June
Poetry
Justin Skylar Belote
Elegy With No One Speaking
Poetry
Abayomi Animashaun
Beggar's Colony'