By Jasna Gugić Translated by Anita Vidakovic Ninkovic Poets Where are you, Poets, You, Wizards? Let us paint with our poem This sorrowful world And people with masks, For behind the mask Even eyes are lackluster And we no longer breathe. Let us raise voice And scrape the mud from our soles. Let us raise … Continue reading Poets and Other Poems
Alone and Other Poems
By Gary William Ramsey Alone Love, Entered my life with abandon, recklessly causing unwanted emotions, reviving the lost hope of happiness. Reason, Escaped the test of thought, and was buried by loves intensity, but continued to struggle to stay alive. Reality, Randomly dismissed and forgotten, having no part of love, joined reason in its isolation. … Continue reading Alone and Other Poems
Father’s Silence and Mama’s Lemonade
By Georgia May Father takes me out on the fishing boat every year, for one weekend in June. I don’t know why father does this. He doesn’t speak to me the entire time. Or any other time. He is usually away. Far, far away, on business, and comes home ghost-like, scurrying off to the study … Continue reading Father’s Silence and Mama’s Lemonade
The Swimmers of Cape Fourwind
By Anna Treffer It wasn’t swimming weather. Thick clouds, like stained pumice, thrust the day into premature twilight. The strengthening wind hinted at a storm, throwing salty spray onto the car that pulled up across from Cape Fourwinds. As the engine cut off the pair inside made no move to get out. More salt threw … Continue reading The Swimmers of Cape Fourwind
Only Red Poems and The Desert
By Jean Edmunds Only Red© I can’t see anything in front of me, Only red. The rain clouds, the storms Cannot hide or undertake The dread I feel. In and out it passes, When it remains No other color I see instead, Only red. The clouds move in Over the tide As it rises and … Continue reading Only Red Poems and The Desert
Baseball in Lea and Washington Senators
By Peter Mladinic Baseball in Lea Some have not heard of a bunt. The slide is something on a guitar, the double play a cloud of mystery. You won’t find “I heart Ruth” in blue ink on a notebook’s face. Diamond takes a backseat to speedway. Gridiron and goalposts bring out the football in us. … Continue reading Baseball in Lea and Washington Senators
Little Ferns and Litote
By Hope Fa-Kaji Little Ferns There are little ferns of frozen condensation In the bottom of the oval frame Between us and the sky And there is a smoky haze Over the blackened tips of the mountains That ring the city In the distance, I had forgotten that The Outside is attacking After years of … Continue reading Little Ferns and Litote
The Hadley House
By C.J. Spulak The brown, bare trees swayed slowly in the October wind. In the waning afternoon sunlight, Jessa Fromm squinted through the spots of caked dust and bug guts on the dirty window and gazed out on a yard full of dying weeds and yellowing grass. She sprayed some Windex on the dirty glass … Continue reading The Hadley House
End of the Line
By Mario Marcinko Originally published in CafeLit Magazine Following yet another failed night of forced unrest, I leave the comforts of my sheets, ready or not to face the day. The greyness of life begins its attack on my sensations before I open the window upon skies curtained with leaden clouds and streaked streams of … Continue reading End of the Line
A Memory
By NIGHTMAN I recall my early day In this moments so close To the upcoming era Of haunting creatures at bay. It was scent of a girl That trembled my daydream souvenir of the past— And I thought tales are true And young ones innocent flesh and smell be it in memory be it in … Continue reading A Memory
Academy of the Heart And Mind 