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Dec 15, 20243 min read
[Poetry] Three Poems by Susan Love Brown
THE GHOST OF SURFER GIRL They barely notice those filmy footsteps travelling around them, kicking up fine grains of sand as she...
Dec 15, 20244 min read
[Poetry] Three Poems by Leo Rose Rodriguez
Sand Crabs We wait for the rows of twinned slits to appear like closed eyes on the surface of the swash zone.My stubby six year old...
Dec 15, 20243 min read
[Poetry] Four Poems by Kate Bucca
Treading Water My coach told me I'd be a butterfly -er if only I added grace to my freestyle. I don’t remember learning to swim, but I...
Dec 15, 20242 min read
[Poetry] Three Poems by Courtney Seymour
Return to Harborside tidal markings underline a span of palm, index finger crooked, an arch bridge over a typewritten sea, a projection,...
Dec 15, 20244 min read
[Poetry] Five Poems by Jordan Blanchard
Love of the Angler a tanka What devastation— the in-malleable nature of my body in your eye. Pricked by the steel...
Dec 12, 20242 min read
[Poetry] Two Poems by Gerard Sarnat
Antsy Current week -- Stuck between Xmas and Auld Lang Syne -- Is tough weak Literary journal Periodwise for us Ambitious poets ...
Dec 5, 20241 min read
[Poetry] the architect of the water
By Ajise Vincent “she was free in her wildness. she was a wanderess, a drop of free water. she belonged to no man & to no city”...
Nov 28, 20241 min read
[Poetry] Two Poems by Frank William Finney
Crab Trap (for Jackie Bastian) Sand in our sandals. Two sirens in tow. One warm summer evening. The stars all aglow. We paired...
Nov 21, 20241 min read
[Poetry] Two Poems by Arabella Sarver
two oceans august. glimpses of life beyond the bridge. warmth dancing over burnt skin. a silver ring hangs in midair. garnets, pearls...
Nov 14, 20241 min read
[Poetry] Two Poems by K.T. Mills
Fanfare The carpenter bees thriving in the eaves and the obliterating sun, the futility of a breeze, the roses with hooked thorns, the...
Nov 7, 20242 min read
[Poetry] Three Poems by Glenis Moore
Sea dreaming When the sun beats down in Cambridge I long to see the sea, to taste the salt that's in the air, to paddle leisurely. To...
Oct 31, 20242 min read
[Poetry] Two Poems by Christina Hennemann
Tidal Prophecy: Gezeitenwelle We don’t know the sea, you say, gazing from the sky-stretching pier. Bricks towering over rippled sand,...
Oct 24, 20241 min read
[Poetry] Two Poems by Jennifer Lagier
Brandt’s Cormorants Ghoulish cormorants forage California Current, plunge forty feet below ocean waves, skewer their next silvery meal,...
Oct 17, 20242 min read
[Poetry] Two Poems by Judith Mikesch-McKenzie
Triolets - Seeking After Driftwood “We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected on the deep.” - William James ...
Oct 10, 20241 min read
[Poetry] My Inner Fish Tiktaalik
By Ralph La Rosa My inner fish alerts me, when I’m peckish, that through eons I’d been a dish delish, to fish! That even now I nosh kin’s...
Oct 3, 20242 min read
[Poetry] Two Poems by Mina Moore
The Collector I once saw a lighthouse that pulled poems to the shore: sleek fishy poems that cut through the water like shooting stars,...
Sep 26, 20242 min read
[Poetry] The Perfect Jump
By Beata Stasak Fear prickling my feat try to ignore the pounding in my ears five meters beneath me the dark...
Sep 19, 20241 min read
[Poetry] Two Poems by Tatiana Retivov
3 May 2022 On Russia's Invasion of Ukraine It will go To the wrong Town. And Others insulated Their windows....
Sep 12, 20242 min read
[Poetry] Two Poems by Doug Jacquier
Pure escapism I’ll bet she’s the type that secretly reads door-stop Gothics and would go for a square cleft jaw and strong silence if she...
Sep 5, 20242 min read
[Poetry] Two Poems by Nina Kossman
See How They Watch You See how they watch you: a neighbors’ dog lying supine at your feet, cats in every alley with a hungry look, a...
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