Mar 27, 2023
by Cecil Morris
I was her second-chance, replacement dad, / a do-over daddy meant to keep her safe
Mar 6, 2023
by Terry Trowbridge
The shortest unit of time in my life / was the space between undoing one shoelace / and about to undo the other.
Dec 14, 2022
by Sheree La Puma
Give me silence & sadness, a taste of citrus swallowed after a shot, something bitter like daughters who have parted ways.
Dec 8, 2022
by Hayden Saunier
I fell in love with a field of rye. / It happened this spring for the first time and I am not young.
Nov 7, 2022
by Ellen Romano
My mother has asked me if I see / wild animals around town. / She moves in and out of lucidity
Oct 31, 2022
by Justin Hunt
Pollen dusts our yard. The oaks, heavy / with seed, rake the past from wind, / and an old friend’s voice comes to me
Oct 26, 2022
by B. Fulton Jennes
Dutch elm disease took its toll / on the once-lush sentinel by our pond— / a titan I often climbed to the very top
Oct 3, 2022
by Pam Vap
a white lily / with sails of petals / above the pink blush on the weak stem
Sep 28, 2022
by Judy Kaber
It’s been a long two weeks and I’m ready to leave. / I ask myself: / Are you really the man I once married?
Sep 24, 2022
by Jackleen Holton
Sleep while the baby sleeps, / they tell you, and so you begin, like one having to learn / everything all over again, to take sleep in small sips