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The Adventures of LaBertha Johnson © 2009 Akilah C. McDaniel The Beginning Imagine a nice neighborhood with somewhat quiet streets and nice neat little houses with nice, manicured little yards. Now we will zoom in on one house in particular. This house is a small red-brick one with a dark red door. As we look [...]

Watch © 2009 Suzanne Grenoble My girl asks Mommy what’s the time? and I say Time to sled into a snowpile, play Make believe or cookie cop or End the day leisurely bathing with Unimaginable legions of friends What time is it Mommy when the Big Hand touches twelve? Time to stand up tall, to [...]

Selected Poems © 2009 Timothy Russell They whirled and flurried from the sky. They came to me in the middle of the night, some silently, some clumsily bumping into things. They stuck their tongues in my mouth. Some slunk along the edge of the river bank like feral cats. Some ran ahead of me like [...]

The Fifty Things Wrong With This Picture © 2009 Timothy Russell None of this will hasten or delay that dazzling flash astonishingly brief on the horizon. Some of these children have never seen a river or an orchard or a pea pod before today. Poppies and impatiens that make you think “cinnamon” instead of “cinnabar” [...]

The Night Was Made For Romance © 2009 Lamar Cole The night was made for romance. In the night our two hearts dance. Under the stars our lips touch. In the garden your embrace means so much. The night was made for love. Our hearts cooing like a white dove. Your eyes sparkling like diamonds [...]

autobiographical limerick © 2009 delor e. ferral The jobs that I’ve held have been various, My character, sometimes nefarious, Not normally funny, Enough to make money, When nude, women think I’m hilarious.

Lemon © 2009 Suzanne Grenoble Sea surge sluicing Salt Citrus Over the tongue Pale seeds Like transparent pebbles, Slipslide longways, Settling in sea algae– Cool dark underworld green down. Upsideways, Yellow-bright sun pinwheels on high, Over our celadon haven for nests.

Core © 2009 Suzanne Grenoble Apple Below scarlet skin, White flesh within, Black bugs in snow, Buried cold, slow Apple seeds Sift in and out of sleep. Secrets unravel in the sand of dreams So she must listen, All the way to the center of things, Here is where the silence rings, The hollow shell [...]

So Lost © 2009 Michele Lee Moyer When your away My eyes cry Tiny little tears On my pillow I feel so alone When your not Here I wish you Would come back Home Where you need To be Because I feel So Lost Without you

In the Blink of an Eye © 2009 Cacy Ann Minter Franky couldn’t pinpoint the exact day he first saw the creature. He guessed he’d always had a feeling that something in his existence wasn’t quite right, but he never could put his finger on it. And so he went about his usual boring daily [...]

Ad Finem © 2009 Jody McMaster Today is the same as yesterday. Tomorrow will be the same as today. Misery pushes open the door of desperation. A lull descends upon demeanor, and hopes quickly dissipate. Soon becomes an afterthought. Time passes. Tomorrows come, and yesterdays pass with no change in incident. Time is no friend [...]

Changing Times © 2009 Courtney Lyn Blystone Seasons change from summer to fall Winter coming with an early frost Plants start to shrievel up and turn brown Grass soon turns into hay Trees begin to lose all the leaves Which turned such pretty colors in the fall. People grow and change year to year A [...]

Interpretations © 2009 Jody McMaster I cant suppress all these memories. Why would I try? The past, like a songbird perched matter-of-factly on my window sill. Not to be neglected. Passed down, recorded, each one. On blank pages are penned an account of my life. Etched on my brain for eternity. Each one so vivid, [...]

The Slope of War © 2009 Yael K. Miller He was a scout. He could have been an officer but he made his choice years ago. He had no interest in being an officer and his job as a scout kept him as far away from officers as possible and for a majority of the [...]

An Ending Of A Similar Kind © 2009 E.D. Arrington I looked into your eyes and saw mine; The countenance on your face sent me traveling back in time; The love that poured from your heart reminded me of another; It was the same love I had shared with my mother; On a hot, muggy, [...]