Fragments of Southwestern Youth Stink beetles balancebeakson splintered porch.Arizona daze,San Francisco Peakssanctify.Dragonflies flash blueas jelly shoes.Chicken-egg scoopcoop. Sunflowers archrock-hunked roadsthrough ponderosa pine.Jewelry-makerneighbor, turquoise nuggetsmachine drills, echoes. Pine bough huts,Sinagua potsherds,black-on-white patternsfragment underfoot;daydreams dead awakenearthen palms:ontological monsoon. No cell phone, no gps.Sun out time: time-inmoon orb oozes behindMars Hill: no ears ringing, no callsfrom home or to home,not in far-goneforest of…
Print & Digital Issues
Featuring: This summer double issue features stimulating and provocative works of poetry, flash fiction, short nonfiction, and photography by Virginia Barrett, Mark Belair, Arno Bohlmeijer, Mark Burke, Sharon Chmielarz, Jamie Derkenne, Stuart Forrest, Marc Frazier, James Grabill, John Horvath Jr, Michael Hower, Rebecca Irene, Philip Kienholz, A.C. Koch, Tom Lavazzi, DJ Lee, Brittny Meredith, Karla Linn Merrifield, Wendy Miles, Daniel Edward Moore, Leah Oates, Andy Posner, Sheree La Puma, Grethel Ramos, D. D. Renforth, Jack Ridl, Betsy Rupp, Gerard Sarnat, Chavonn Williams Shen, Gary Singh, Dalena Storm, Teresa Sutton, Patrick Sylvain, Jeri Theriault, and Jamie Wagman.