And this is how
democracy dies –
leisurely, with head
and hand making
wishful gestures
while the heart
continues frozen inside.
Howie Good is the author of THE DEATH ROW SHUFFLE, a poetry collection forthcoming from Finishing Line Press.
Once a blue moon
I crawl on all fours
into old hiding places
and howl
for the parts of me
left behind
and wait
for them to howl back.
Ellen Huang is an ace writer of fairy tales, published in 50+ places, who enjoys tasteful horror and reenacting Disney scenes on demand.
Wendy Taylor Carlisle lives and writes in the belly of the present COVID beast, Northwest Arkansas.
Dale, Liz, & Tony
Tina Privitera-Reynolds should be on the pavement clapped in a sandwich board that says “clown for hire.”
J.R. Solonche is the author of eighteen books of poetry and co-author of one.
We are dreaming this, listening
to flame as it eats wood
with its teeth and translucent tongue.
Steve Klepetar listens to Pandora while he walks in his nearly deserted neighborhood, glad not to explain why he wears a Yankees cap in Massachusetts.
Home again for a moment,
he rests in the sun face down,
his head turned so I can see his shuttered
eyes, notice the thickening hair
covering his legs until in one
sudden inhalation
he is a man
and I cannot ask him certain things,
those questions will have to leave
my body the same way he first left me,
coming into the light of this world.
Robin Dellabough is an editor and poet who recently discovered she is 50% Ashkenazi Jewish via a father she never knew.