Contents

Editorial

Emergency by Mark Allinson

Ode to Poets (as a last resort) by Maureen Almond

Our Father by C.B. Anderson

Discovery by Jared Carter

Nettles by Temple Cone

And The Men Kept Coming by Nicola Daly

Shakespeare in Love by Ann Drysdale

The Despair That Knows It Is Despair by Louis Gallo

Doctor Donne’s Blessing by Ray Givans

Chagall by Patricia Wallace Jones

Days She Was Queen by Patricia Wallace Jones

Beneath Julia’s Clothes by Jan Iwaskiewicz

Unaddressed by KJ

In Which I Employ Anatomy to Enact Myself by Abby Millager

Triduum by Rick Mullin

Small Game on the Prairie by Timothy Murphy

Mindful by Frank Osen

Cruising by James S. Wilk

Observe the Muslin Footman by Peter Wyton

Suspicion Falls On The Seat Of The Hamza by Peter Wyton