Rag
Old red bandana
collected memories
New red rag
collecting dust
S.M. Abeles
Rag
Old red bandana
collected memories
New red rag
collecting dust
S.M. Abeles
the azalea
outside my window
died in summer
dull spring coming
David C. Kopaska-Merkel
He fancies himself a craftsman
Painter of abstractions:
Visceral and sincere,
Might it be that I find
My face within the lines.
Darren Crawford
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This issue of the journal features poetry by S.M. Abeles, Jack Brown, Helen Buckingham, Joel Chua Hiang Yang, Darren Crawford, Sarah Crossland, D.W. Cunningham, Tracy Davidson, Ed Higgins, Julie Israel, Bharati Jagannathan, David C. Kopaska-Merkel, Peter Massiah, Catherine Owen, Kushal Poddar, Kristin Roedell, Steve Shultz, and Karen Stromberg.
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