Willie Lepers by Norman Ball

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The Baby by Jeff Crouch and Christopher Woods

Artwork/poetry

SOMETIMES I WISH I WAS STILL ON THE GLIDER ON THE SCREENED PORCH by Lyn Lifshin

before traffic was no
more than a soft lull
beyond the elm trees,
ice clinking in frosty
glasses, my mother
still in 4 inch heels.

1 out of 6 by by Rob Plath

bukowski said
he punched out
one great poem in
every six

those are pretty
good odds

that means you gotta
keep banging them out
shitty or not to
get to that 1 in the 6

suffering and its proximity by David Mclean

they write that our awareness of the suffering
of others is deadened by distances
and i agree, you really have to see it
for it to be funny, that's why we have
TV

The Recipe by Emme Hor

1. keep on my knees
2. look him in the eye
3. rub his ego all night
4. cook up his soul

Sometimes Suicidal by Aimee DeLong

SPIDER BITES

I am Spider.
In 1960 I learned
to crawl.
In 1940 I woke up
with spider bites.

Last Night at Southport by Justin Hyde

tell her i'm a butterfly
with sixteen wings
beating in
succinct
anarchy.

microwave popcorn haiku by Pete Lee

pop. pop. pop, pop, pop,
poppoppoppoppoppoppop
pop, pop, pop. pop. pop.

 

APOCALYPSE MAMBO

The shadow of the airplane
climbs the Washington

like the red in a thermometer,

and men with French cuffs
decide because they can

whose child drowns in fire,
whose world disappears.

Then they glance at their watches
and gather up their papers,

and we feel dark, insolvent wings
pass over us when least expected,

while shoving it in, or pulling it out,
or reading this.

 

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Biography

Howie Good, a journalism professor at the State University
of New York at New Paltz, is the author of four poetry
chapbooks, Death of the Frog Prince (2004) and Heartland
(2007) from FootHills Publishing, Strangers & Angels
(2007) from Scintillating Publications, and a forthcoming
e-chapbook from Right Hand Pointing.

 

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