Genre: Poetry

Shannan Mann

"Even my shadow I often found to have abandoned my body. / I sought the sun — by an eternal eclipse was I oppressed."

Karan Kapoor

"everyone around us echoes / into the wind / even rain has a voice"

Sam Spring

"You lay your head on my lap / and soak in the strawberry lemonade sky, / sipping the last long day of June / out of your glass."

Ace Boggess

"If I added voice to musicians in their choir, / my instrument would whine complaints. / Annexed by the troupe, / I fingered quick approximations of each note."

Andre F. Peltier

"Late lunch on picnic tables / floating above Bar Harbor. / Garlic butter bliss. / My first taste of lobster. / A buck a piece in those days."

Andre F. Peltier

"The initial had been used / to go into debt / three or four times over. / The initial needed to die."

Patrick Beath

"Yellows of sunrise and sunset, mine and his. / Sulfured pulp and ligneous page. / The word is, he’d have had / no patience for this:"

Patrick Beath

"This may be accompanied by / a sense of exhalation, of / relief, of surrender. You may / find yourself succumbing / to an impossible closeness."

Edgar Medina

"I stumble out of the grocery / store with a bouquet of a dozen / roses cuddled closely to my heart / feeling the desperation / creep from out the many / holes misplaced within / my clothing."

John Grey

"Really, his burial was so unlike him. / They should have plopped him in the coffin face down. / But there are certain rituals to be followed"