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 98, April 2021

Burrdowning Press

60 pages, perfect bound

Print + eBook: $15.00

Featuring: Issue 98, published April 2021, features works of poetry, flash fiction, short nonfiction, and photography by Tobi Alfier, Carter Ayles, Daisy Bassen, Hannah Story Brown, James Butcher, Michelle Cacho-Negrete, Robin B. Carey, Juan David Cruz-Duarte, Pernille AEgidius Dake, John Dorroh, Connor Doyle, Kim Farleigh, E Laura Golberg, Ceinwen E Cariad Haydon, Chris Innes, Zeina Lee, Laney Lenox, S Frederic Liss, Alice Lowe, Elizabeth Mayer, James McKee, Seojin Moon, Susan Notar, Colette Parris, Andrew Posner, Danny Rebb, Jim Ross, Eugene Shin, Julie Sonnek, Lesley Stanley, Richard Weaver, Kelley Jean White, Jean Wolff, John J. Zywar.