Four and Twenty

Rag

Old red bandana
collected memories

New red rag
collecting dust

S.M. Abeles

S.M. Abeles’ work has recently been featured in Tuck Magazine, High Coup Journal, and Railroad Poetry. He frequently posts Japanese-style and other forms of poetry at his website. | everythingisemptypoetry.blogspot.com

the azalea
outside my window
died in summer
dull spring coming

David C. Kopaska-Merkel

David C. Kopaska-Merkel’s poetry has appeared in scores of venues, including Asimov’s, Strange Horizions,and Star*line. He edits Dreams & Nightmares magazine and is president of the Science Fiction Poetry Association.| dreamsandnightmaresmagazine.blogspot.com

He fancies himself a craftsman

Painter of abstractions:
Visceral and sincere,
Might it be that I find
My face within the lines.

Darren Crawford

Darren Crawford is a freelance writer, a full-time nurse, and a student. His work has been featured in several editions of The Anthology, Winthrop University’s literary magazine, and in the curriculum of his community college in South Carolina.

Forgetful

I’m flying on a bike,
Spinning and spinning and spinning
With the wind in my hair—
“Wait, where’s my helmet?”

Alan Johnston

Alan Johnston, a senior at Clackamas High School in Clackamas, Oregon, is a running fool. He runs fifty miles a week. When he’s not running, he’s trying to be funny.