It was such a long time since the last rain that when it started the other night I thought it was a truck rumbling down the street, and when it pelted the roof and rang the gutter it didn’t register so much as water as it did a broken chain of beads rolling over corrugated tin.… Read More “NIGHT RAIN IN THE DESERT by Molly McKasson Morgan”

Humans are composed of approximately 57% bacteria, 43% human cells, yet only humans have representation in Congress.… Read More “POEM FOR AN ECO-MARXIST by Meara Levezow”

After I graduated high school at eighteen, I thought I had outgrown my toy-box from when I was eight.… Read More “IN THE ARMY NOW by Jefferson Huddle”

It has come to my attention that the recently retired gray mare “ain’t what she used to be.”… Read More “CHANCES ARE I WILL REPEAT MYSELF by Edward Miller”

Diego Valeri, 1887-1976, was an Italian poet, journalist, writer, scholar, critic, and translator of French and German literature.… Read More “FIVE POEMS ABOUT VENICE BY DIEGO VALERI translated by Laura Valeri”

The older I get, the more I’m conscious of ways very small things can make a change in the world.… Read More “WHEN CHANGE FIRST WHISPERED IN MY EAR by Ellen Skilton”

the airplane engine started up as powerful as forgiveness upward immersion into blue layers baby, light, cornflower Pacific in ultramarine below white plumes pause with deliberation before dissolving balloons, blooms, bangles of clean cream-capped mountains clouds and white boats pervade the beds of blues the same dimension as my headspace awakening as a white lotus soaring at an even pace with my false bravado he said to enjoy the flight home you too I thought holding his white, blue-veined hand I am resolved to enjoy temporary clouds, transitioning sky eternal beauty in doing what I was told