“YOUR LAST KISS!” / BY: ONFWAN FOUAD

“Your last kiss!”•Text by: Onfwan Fouad/ AlgeriaTranslation from Arabic by: Dr, Yousef Hanna/ Palestine ▪ Your last kissIs boilingDown this mouthThe more I remembered you,the cracks of speech openedLike a wintry spring.This morningThe deeper I went, more and moreThe lip becameCrudeAs a fruit slipped through the harvest hands.I eagerly await the sun every morningTo rise […]

A WOKE REPUBLICAN RATTLES THE HOUSE TO THE STRAINS OF WORDSWORTH’S SONNET/ Robert Hogg

A Woke Republican Rattles the House to the Strains of Wordsworth’s Sonnet Trump is too much with us! Late and soon, With lies and incitement he’s laid waste our powers; Little now of Congress is still ours; We’ve sold our hearts to a sordid Daniel Boone! Let’s now impeach this fool who thought the moon […]

3 Poems by /Merna Dyer Skinner

CLOCKING TIME O, to climb inside a clock! To slip between the gears— interrupt the click click ticking— prevent my bones from grinding to dust. Grandfather’s clock tocks in Sweden— the rhythm of Viking oars, lifting, dropping—clacking like the clash of ancestor’s swords. Standing watch, moon’s flat face turns, turns its painted […]

Selections from “DONT’S” / by -Eva Andrea Bertoglio

Selections from “DONT’S” WIELD INFLUENCE Engraved on marble at the grave of Christ— the world’s greatest influencer. This living dead man devoted to memory even while living; our power crushes us. Can you conceive an eternal mausoleum? Christ speaks of blood, of a love which consumes every other love. Do not read his word; influence […]

BRUTAL OATMEAL/ Kelly Lenox

Brutal Oatmeal Brutal oatmeal and crows, unafraid. A rollicking good grocery cart was left out in the rain. Now they’ve ordered a wheel bearing biopsy. No point in trying to climb out of this labyrinth—out of the hedge is out. Without is the place to be, nothing is the thing to wear and fingers are […]