Blue blue blue over everything
and what branches attach to it?

Branches that divide its brightness,
still unattached to names.

Michael Jones

Michael Jones teaches at Oakland High School in Oakland, CA. His poems have appeared in Atlanta Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, and elsewhere.

This issue of the journal features poetry and artwork by Ramesh Anand, Jonathan Batteas, Carol Berger’s, R. A. Davis, Kim Feltkamp, Tyler Gabrysh, Michael Jones, Rachel Kearney, H. Cyrus Kellogg, kjmunro, Michael Atreides Lair, Caroline Mahony, ie mcgavock, Steven Minchin, Pravat Kumar Padhy, Marguerite María Rivas, Fabio Sassi, Kelly A. Simmons, Marty Smith, Andrew Wenson, Elisabeth Smith Wood, and Sallie Tierney.

A new issue of the journal is released the third Tuesday of each month. The next issue of the journal will be released on Tuesday, June 19.

Mark Kaplon

Mark Kaplon is a taro farmer on the Hamakua Coast of the Big Island of Hawaii.

More deer trails than roads,
Where oaks crawl into clouds,
A baby ponderosa witnesses me
Digging its only home.

Michael Aspros

Mike Aspros lives on the edge of Forest Park. His poetry has appeared in Audubon’s The Warbler, Columbia Land Trust’s quarterly newsletter, Trust Talk, and forthcoming in The Grove Review and Fault Lines Poetry.

Wind scampers across the porch
and shakes bright ivy.
Open the door and unwrap
the bright face of morning.

Jean McLeod

Jean McLeod is the author of Poems for Women Who Think They Hate Poetry. Her poems have appeared in vox poetica, Greensilk Journal, Red River Review, Golden Sparrow Review, Leaf Garden, Forces Poetry, and others.

doing time
digits squeezed into cells
hands barred
from the weaving of words

ie mcgavock

ie mcgavock hails from Ireland and salutes the pacific.

Perpetually empty;
eternally plenty
of pristine pages, saved
for thoughts better than these.

Jonathan Batteas

Jonathan Batteas is a poet, living in the heartland of America. | pasceverbo.com

Rain staggers thru the dust,
leaving drunken footsteps.

Dan Fitzgerald

Dan Fitzgerald started writing years ago. It has only been in the last few years that he has tried to be published. He has been published in Poetalk, Nomads Choir, WritersJournal, The Advocate, and other journals.

Dale Patterson

Dale Patterson is a visual artist and poet. His work has appeared in Main Street Rag, Iodine Poetry Journal, Black Heart Magazine, Right Hand Pointing, and Clutching at Straws. | dalepattersonart.com/a>

Tandem painting back to back,
she loathed his apathetic lines, adored his Futurism.
His pendulum cupped her echo, her revival.

Elisabeth Smith Wood

Elisabeth Smith Wood is a former fashion and style columnist. She writes poetry and short stories and is currently working on her first novel. She is a member of the Florida Writers Association.