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Nov 16, 20231 min read
[Poetry] Two Poems by Mark Murphy
The Inundation of Dreams The old man insists, the ocean will come back while his grandchildren are dreaming. While his sons prepare dawn...
Nov 9, 20231 min read
[Poetry] Untitled
By Mykyta Ryzhykh Untitled We soared vapors of moisture up to the cloud Will we be able to return to earth? The white cat of my younger...
Nov 7, 20231 min read
[Poetry] Two Poems by Robin Knight
Leviathan The whales came in, the whales went out, into the harbour and beyond. Wrecking the boardwalk with their thudding passage, they...
Nov 2, 20232 min read
[Poetry] Two Poems by Martins Deep
A boy's plea to water This seascape— tinted with the yellow breath of the dying sun— spreads into a wiggling waistline of the sea...
Oct 26, 20231 min read
[Poetry] All Belongings in One Suitcase
By Camille McCawley Camille McCawley is a UK based poet. Her debut pamphlet “An Odd Gift” was published by Bearded Badger Publishing in...
Oct 19, 20231 min read
[Poetry] Two Poems by Marek Kulig
Neptune A vineyard up the hill from Castelnuovo Berardenga in the Siena Province of Tuscany was once on the seafloor. The hand-sized...
Oct 17, 20231 min read
[Poetry] An evening by the beach, I heard a Voice
by Shailey Bellamkonda An evening by the beach, I heard a Voice A sight by the Sun A song by the moon Free and wild I have no prison I am...
Oct 12, 20231 min read
[Poetry] Two Poems by Uche Chidozie
My Psalm The eardrums burst into the rumble of buzz and busy Paragon of pandemonium perpetrates air carnage, When the chaotic music stops...
Oct 5, 20231 min read
[Poetry] Two Poems by Bernadette Whiteley
Home Help Jar upon jar of shells fill the shelves where books, photographs, normality should be. Swathes of brittle seaweed hang in place...
Sep 28, 20232 min read
[Poetry] Two Poems by Ted Eisenberg
By Carmel-by-the-Sea Surfers paddle out in the April chill, but never catch the surf. Are they children -- remote, heedless and alone?...
Sep 26, 20233 min read
[Prose Poem] At the Mansplainers Anonymous Meeting by Jamie Brisick
At the Mansplainers Anonymous Meeting By Jamie Brisick At the Mansplainers Anonymous meeting we were given a maximum of twenty-five...
Sep 26, 20231 min read
[Poetry] Two Poems by Halle George
Anne Bonny Makes It Out when you made it to the beach was your child on your back or left on another shore? and which would be harder to...
Sep 21, 20232 min read
[Poetry] Two Poems by Kristen Hornung
The Long Way Depart before dawn, follow the dirt path into the valley hidden by fog, where rust-brown and dusty-gray coyotes glide...
Sep 14, 20231 min read
[Poetry] Two Poems by Laurie Rosenblatt
Laurie Rosenblatt is co-founder and co-editor of LEON Literary Review. She received and MFA from The Program for Writers at Warren Wilson...
Sep 7, 20231 min read
[Poetry] Two Poems by M. Ocampo McIvor
lost at sea adrift with no consolation sunk cost misspent energy shunned so close to shore denied from mooring i am nothing to no one—...
Sep 5, 20231 min read
[Poetry] Two Poems by Ojasi Mehta
We have a globe in our hands “Mamma! Why don’t we go on a vacation?” My daughter pops up this question every other day. “We can go in the...
Aug 31, 20232 min read
[Poetry] Two Poems by Nicole Cosme
Wrestling I imagine her name is Cassandra, She hates to be called Cassie She hates wanting to fit in, but she doesn’t realize it yet She...
Aug 24, 20231 min read
[Poetry] Two Poems by Kenton K. Yee
SPRING TERROR The surf is surging salt and quake, blue turned white like suds from soap, defects bearing mites afloat with curly languid...
Aug 17, 20231 min read
[Poetry] Two Poems by Sharon Carter
Wave Theory The lagoon stumbles out, a blue sheet, rimmed by a green line of mangrove. Sky folds against ocean, a faint crease parsed by...
Aug 15, 20232 min read
[Poetry] Two Poems by Ian Powell-Palm
DARLA It’s not the way we danced around your grandparent’s grave, Nor how your body was indistinguishable from smoke when you stood still...
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