While You Were Gone

January 2013 | back-issues, poetry | 9 comments

While you were goneWe talkedWe touchedWe slid meltingIce cubes overSweat slick thighsWhile you were goneWe danced barefootTo the little radioIn the kitchenNakedAte chocolate chipCookies and lickedCrumbs off our facesTogetherWhile you were goneWe laughedSoftly and hardAs the light fellWe sat face toFace and fingeredEyelashesUntilWith an unwarning whirYou returnedIn blaze of light andBlaring voiceAnd caught usIn reimpoweredSixty…

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Issue 100, October 2021

Burrdowning Press

64 pages, perfect bound

Print + eBook: $15.00

Featuring: Issue 100, published October 2021, features works of poetry, flash fiction, short nonfiction, and photography by KJ Angelo, Elaine Barnard, Ruth Bavetta, Marcia K. Bilyk, Heather Bourbeau, Heath Brougher, Juliana Chang, Todd Copeland, Danica Depenhart, David Dephy, Edilson Afonso Ferreira, Sandy Fry, Violeta Garcia-Mendoza, Tawnya Gibson, Scott G. Harvey, Mark Henderson, Stanley Horowitz, Penny Jackson, Christy Lorio, Joe Lugara, Andromeda Mendoza, J. Alan Nelson, Marlene Olin, James Penha, Patrick T. Reardon, Nicolas Ridley, O.G. Rose, Jim Ross, Claire Scott, Roberta Senechal de la Roche, April Pride Sharp, Dave Sims, Richard Stimac, Ellen Stone, Lou Storey, SM Stubbs, Shannon K. Winston, and Tanya L. Young.