Fersace

Nicole Tallman   I moved to Miami because of The Golden Girls and The Conga. True story. Versace and a job offer may have played a small role. I took a government job, so I’m wearing Fersace. That’s not a typo. I can’t afford the real Versace. At least not in...

Operating System

Paul Jones   An hourglass works best when its sand’s kept dry. I work better after a shot of rye. There’s more to be seen with blood in your eye.   Poems in Poetry, Red Fez, Broadkill Review, 2River View, as well as in previous issues of Wine...

Fragments of Desert Storm

Tyler Justin Smothers desert storm-- Smothers   Tyler Justin Smothers is a 7th grade teacher at a classical school in Oklahoma City. He earned a B.A. in English and his favorite poets are T.S. Eliot, John Donne, and Geoffrey Chaucer, whose father was, in fact, a...

The Girls We Were Before This

Jennifer Schomburg Kanke   The girls we were before this: loud and brash, hooting and hollering, we felt filled with power playing The Snake on hillsides green and lush with our hands interlocked and whipping back and forth to music known but never heard aloud....

The Wait

Joanna George   From the 28th day – from the red circled date in my calendar, I start my wait – my count with much devotion and worship, what more ? Fasting on papayas and pineapples, seasoned with sesame seeds and jaggery powder. I keep waiting for this hunger...

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Nolan Dannels   could have been a poet in another life but in this one, I’m giving up the ghost did everything wrong to make it all right because I like to think that’s what I want most came off another psychotic episode earlier this month...