Poetry , Volume 8, Issue 3
Acropolis
He rears there from the pediment, / the horse of the moon. / One flexing leg close by / on plundered ground, its heat / the blood and fire of ages / who…
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Poetry , Volume 8, Issue 3
A street that had a name
Christchurch, New Zealand / - in the residential red zone left by the quakes of 2010-11 / It’s a street that had a name / But it no longer needs one / No…
Poetry , Volume 8, Issue 3
Do I Practise Life?
Do I practise life? / Do I train for the trials yet to come / Like / the / Canada / geese / do? / Or do I just wing it? / Is it just a rolling reaction to…
Poetry , Volume 8, Issue 3
St Nicholas Chapel, Għargħur
how can I make of this vacant space / a place of rest? / it’s just a room where stone must speak / of finitude / beyond it is the summons of the sea – /…
Poetry , Volume 8, Issue 3
Pleading Guilty
I avoid you, Elsewhere! / I am not there and age can be a good excuse / for something one can’t bear – / I listen to birds chirp / protest at trees…
Fiction , Volume 8, Issue 3
Dispatch and Correspondence
Bucharest, Romania Bullets fly as vampiric menace attacks Romanian Orthodox church on the outskirts of Bucharest.
Fiction , Volume 8, Issue 3
The Karnival of Seraphic Knights
A knight must be respectful, selfless, open, devoted, and, above all, they must exude excellence.
Poetry , Volume 8, Issue 3
Sign
Graphically little separates / short from snort. / A stem. / Archaic rain; / speaking of which / do you speak / sign? / Then put your hands out, / feel…
Poetry , Volume 8, Issue 3
The Elders
… smile insouciantly, / though they sweeten the day / when you walk by and mostly / ignore their slow movements. / You catch their eyes briefly / and you…
Poetry , Volume 8, Issue 3
Flower Haiku
September comes / a gypsy moth / in the sweet clematis / toadflax / glittering by the highway underpass / syringes / goldenrod and pokeberry / a door…
Poetry , Volume 8, Issue 3
Tree Haiku
at the root of the red pine the absence of mountain / sowing / the wind / Bradford pear / hurricane remnants / the weeping willow / now a Van Gogh /…