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Poetry , Volume 9, Issue 3
Wonder
a bastarding world. a five-eyed, / a many-legged, wet-feathered / thing.
Poetry , Volume 9, Issue 3
An Undersea Jellyfish
outside the porthole, / when they turn down the cabin / to footpath emergency / lights, then – there is dublin, / a smear on the landscape, / spread out…
Poetry , Volume 9, Issue 3
Almost went back to Ibiza
Balearic Islands only a short flight or / ferry ride from Barcelona and I am here / to walk along The Ramblas, to visit Gaudi / and, if time permits, Miro.
Poetry , Volume 9, Issue 3
The Sizzle of Moving Day
A television station signing off / becomes very friendly about its power / as if to say, “All joyful day / we have been destroying / air around us.” /…
Poetry , Volume 9, Issue 3
Finding New Invective to Inhabit
Ugh, these inexhaustibly / sunny days— / the brain inside the skull / the final thing, / unapprisable marrow in bone. / I suppose I should be happy / but…
Fiction , Volume 9, Issue 3
Showers
The clinking of the cheap saucer on the marble brought Alberto back to the serene pace of the old café, the aroma of ground beans, and the patina of time…
Poetry , Volume 9, Issue 3
Mon Ami
For the first time since I married you, / I want to speak the language of the spirit; / I want to say the things I had swallowed / that made my body…
Poetry , Volume 9, Issue 3
The Debate
Unveiling of the Samuel Taylor Coleridge Memorial Statue vs The Accompanying Sermon, / st / Ottery St Mary Parish Church ~ 21 October 2022 / The rain came…
Poetry , Volume 9, Issue 3
At the Risk of Causing an Earthquake in the Status Quo
Use your inside voice / We don’t shout down these hallways / Take off your shoes and tip-toe / Whisper or don’t say anything at all / Silence keeps the…
Flash , Volume 9, Issue 3
I’m here (2)
The four billion of my childhood have nearly doubled and I’m one of them—me, who was not meant to be.