Tag: Issue 4

  • John Paul Davies

    John Paul Davies is a member of the Poised Pen writers (thepoisedpen.co.uk). Originally from Liverpool, UK, he now lives in Navan, Ireland. His work has been published in The Fog Horn, Rosebud, The Pedestal, Grasslimb, Pseudopod, Ares Magazine, Killing The Angel, and is forthcoming from Sci-Fest LA and Footnote. A poem of his is displayed…

  • Face

    Holding her eye-level after the bath, the towel damp under her arms, she cranes back and looks at me almost cross-eyed, as if until now she’s seen my face in pieces: eyes, nose, in the same orbit, uncontained by any outer limit. Now she sees the whole.  She steadies herself, her palms on each side…

  • Lane Falcon

    Lane Falcon’s poem’s can be found in publications including Rhino, december, The Cortland Review, and more. She won an award for poetry too long ago to mention by name. A single mother of two, one with special needs, she lives in Alexandria, Virginia.

  • House Wrens

    Who came down first, I’ll never know, but I suspect a fledgling fell, down the cabin   chimney flue, and couldn’t, didn’t fly, so new, the wings, the body ready but not ready,   so fell.  And does a house wren calculate the cost of not one, but two, fledglings lost? I   wasn’t there.…

  • Kathryn Kirkpatrick

    Raised in the nomadic subculture of the U.S. military, Kathryn Kirkpatrick grew up in the Philippines, Germany, Texas, and the Carolinas. For over 20 years she has lived in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina where she is a professor of English at Appalachian State University. She is the author of six collections of…

  • A Rising Rugby Star Dies in a Slurry Pit

    Hillsborough, County Down, September 15, 2012   He must have thought it another bloody rough and tumble scrum, a bone crushing brawl heads bashing, the thud of bodies, skin burning, eyes mud-blinded arms and legs slipping through his fingers. Sin-binned.   But he was on his farm. Sweet-scented breezes slipped down from Slievenamon. The Holsteins…

  • Liz Dolan

    Liz Dolan’s poetry manuscript, A Secret of Long Life, nominated for a Pushcart, has been published by Cave Moon Press. Her first poetry collection, They Abide, nominated for The McGovern Prize, Ashland University, was published by March Street. An eight-time Pushcart nominee and winner of  Best of the Web, she was a finalist for Best of the Net 2014. She won…

  • Before the Wedding

    for J.   A cardinal flies straight into my window, stuns himself, the sound of his body ripples against glass even after he falls confounded and quiet in the bushes below. By the time I rush out on the porch, his body is aloft, dazed the way you stumbled out of that bar the night…

  • Simona Chitescu Weik

    Simona Chitescu Weik is a poet, originally from Romania, now living in Atlanta, Georgia, and working towards a PhD in Creative Writing at Georgia State University, where she is also a teaching fellow. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in several print and online publications including The Adirondack Review, Smartish Pace,Terminus, Deer Bear Wolf, The Cimarron Review, and Negative…