Issue #7 • February 2025
Note from the Editor: This issue moves from the quiet of a deathbed to the noise of a crowded mind. A woman’s whole life flashes before her, and a single morning before coffee. These are writers who find the big moments within the small.
In This Issue
When I Take the Podium
When I take the podiumThat day when I declare myself a poet, and let the world beholdWhat my pen had been penning, yesteryears, and…
Cruor
Mercedes Chacon Come, here neath this fleshThat covers bones and susceptible to ailmentsReceiver of the sword & the blanket of our soulsLiquid Gold belonging…
they’d pay a lot of money
for a way to bottle sanitydirections to the fountain of youthpassion sans painto solve the fractal equationbreak the light barriertime travel they’d pay a…
Summer Mornings
Rule number one: No mental crisis before coffee. Wake up. Feel the gentle breeze of the box fan from the foot of the bed…
Green Glass Butterflies
Pain. Pain, Bena thought, as she grabbed her chest and fell to her knees. The lawn mower slowed its growl. Her hands slipped from…