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“Autumn Song,” “Wang’s Xiao Flute,” and “London Pieta–July 7, 2005”

In Issue 50, June 2021, Issues Archive by Olga DuganJune 1, 2021

the body disabled
is most times a cacophonous suite—
moans, a cry, a groan in fortissimos
mounting fading to and from abrupt
weakness
as misguided antibodies
rhythm forward, injure receptors

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“Swain’s Lane” and “Joyride”

In Issue 50, June 2021, Issues Archive by Cassandra MossJune 1, 2021

Some time ago I was like an open palm held out for a reading,
all its lines criss-crossing
and indicating one determined future or another.

I only remember my waking dreams from then,
as if sleep was too close to death
to access the underlayers of my mind

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“Absurdity,” “Straight Man” and “Still You”

In Issue 50, June 2021, Issues Archive by Emily Rose MillerJune 1, 2021

The amount of love I hold for him is absurd.
The human body contains approximately 1.5 gallons of blood,
and at least 1.6 gallons of mine is laced with tiny crystal hearts,
each lit up with pictures of his lopsided grin, his uneven teeth,
and that little freckle dotted on his upper lip

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“A Cold Night Through Time,” “A Feast on the Past and Present” and “To the Living and the Dead”

In Issue 50, June 2021, Issues Archive by Sik Siu SiuJune 1, 2021

When I shiver with cold at night
I put on the socks of memories
boil a pot of yesterdays
promise my legs with
a blanket of tomorrows

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“A little light,” “Si-ghting 53” and “Letter—for Fernando Pessoa”

In Issue 49, May 2021, Issues Archive by Ray MaloneMay 1, 2021

As for the darkness of eternity
a little light by your bed
might do as the wind
flings itself against your wall
weathering all away

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“Stone Pillow,” “Gold Rush Girl” and “#TrashFries”

In Issue 49, May 2021, Issues Archive by Eric LawsonMay 1, 2021

I can’t quite make normal work for me.
The angle, the navigating, the placement.
I’ve lost the how to manual for contorting
my body to use makeshift MacGyver skills
and filthy underbrush to survive on.
I’m not sure how it happened.

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“The Comforts of Gravity,” “Daydreamer” and “Resonance”

In Issue 49, May 2021, Issues Archive by Dennis Perry ClarkMay 1, 2021

I see the autumn leaves falling. I ponder chance as they release.
Watch as they glide, then gently come to rest. A shading life,
clung to a branch, in the final moments breaking free.

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“Intrepid Dreamers,” “Meanwhile” and “Variations on Nineteen Words”

In Issue 49, May 2021, Issues Archive by Alison JenningsMay 1, 2021

Starved for art,
we were made for poetry;
we are mad for poetry.

Study this hunger;
learn how to feed it.

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“Fossils,” “Equinox” and “a beautiful thing”

In Issue 49, May 2021, Issues Archive by Melissa LaDucMay 1, 2021

250 million years ago
an ancient cephalopod
once stretched upon granite
and Time remembers
a tail dragging in thirsty sand.

Meanwhile, She is getting away from us:
a child no one sees

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“What is Poetry?,” “Tongue Fire” and “Faucet Father”

In Issue 49, May 2021, Issues Archive by Olivia KleinMay 1, 2021

Mindset, free flowing, thought exploding
Sunsets,
Seasons, and syllables wrapped into one
Tiny perfect package
But also, great plains
Limitless at face value
And deeper when it’s said

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“The Stranger in the Storm is My Brother”

In Issue 48, April 2021, Issues Archive by Michael McQuillanApril 1, 2021

Is it failing eyes or conscience
since we seem not to see how
Rodney stands alone exposed

to torrential rain in wind
teeming masses hurry past
umbrellas clash like swords

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“Relativity: A Lithograph by M.C. Escher,” “Chores” and “Another Kind Man”

In Issue 48, April 2021, Issues Archive by Virginia WattsApril 1, 2021

In life, I bugged my brother relentlessly
about Escher’s impossible staircases,
his floors and doors, his figures with no faces.

It looks like a prison.
It’s not.

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“Panhandle my marble heart,” “The Crankcase” and “lost dogs in foggy nites”

In Issue 48, April 2021, Issues Archive by Christopher BruneauxApril 1, 2021

Panhandle my marble heart

Put my lips,
in a lonesome tomb
spread gossip of me on the shorelines of ecstasy
as I fall down the ladders
of your purgatory.

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“Anatomy of a Honeycomb,” “Basket of Needles” and “Cabin on Detox Island”

In Issue 48, April 2021, Issues Archive by Monica VieraApril 1, 2021

Post-mortem,
After having lived a life
In and out of mental hospitals
For what could only have been simplified…
Of attacks acute sweetness or withdrawal thereof
An autopsy was performed on me,
And a honeycomb for a heart

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“Street Landscaping,” “Hoodie in the Wind” and “City Birds”

In Issue 48, April 2021, Issues Archive by Brian KerrApril 1, 2021

On concrete, brick and asphalt, filth sits atop. It doesn’t sift into the ground. It runs into the sewers but first it spends days, weeks, months lingering in puddles that don’t evaporate. Too much building shade and east coast oceanside atmospheric overcast

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“Someone Else’s Stars,” “Hockey Night in Emmett County” and “Graceland”

In Issue 48, April 2021, Issues Archive by Andre F. PeltierApril 1, 2021

The sun is our center
bringing light and life.

Painted on the walls
of Lascaux caves,
the sun illuminates
the bulls
and the Magdalenian
artists.

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“Pangea,” “Blind” and “Self Portrait: Highjacked”

In Issue 48, April 2021, Issues Archive by A. HayesApril 1, 2021

in the beginning
there were no delineations markers or boundaries shaping his from
hers
quotation marks he said she said
rivers mapping theirs from ours

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“Magicians and Fortune Tellers,” “No Home-Maker Here” and “The One That Got Away”

In Issue 48, April 2021, Issues Archive by H. C. PhillipsApril 1, 2021

pluck a single card from a shuffled deck
and there’s a one-in-fifty-two chance
that you now hold the two of hearts.

all our potential futures that we think exist somewhere
in maybe or one day

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“Conspiracies,” “Return to Kansas” and “I See Now”

In Issue 47, March 2021, Issues Archive by Martha KaneMarch 1, 2021

The random caws of crows
I hear as I unload the dishwasher.
I look out to see three birds gathered
round the war memorial
and the flag.

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“hate | thirst,” “Sahara’s siren” and “release | remain”

In Issue 47, March 2021, Issues Archive by Erik PoitrasMarch 1, 2021

for those that are tempted to drink from the fountain of hate
beware of that bittersweet nectar
even as it feels like honey running down your chin
you will realize its acidic burning nature
as it bores a trail into your soul

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“Derwent,” “Sunday” and “November”

In Issue 47, March 2021, Issues Archive by Emily MarchmentMarch 1, 2021

The Derwent’s not in any rush. Green surf
Of trees, the rocky crests of peaks now still
Enough to watch their sister wind downhill
And salve exploited wounds of quarried earth.

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“There Are No Words,” “Que Será – Mother’s Stare” and “Peace”

In Issue 47, March 2021, Issues Archive by Russell WillisMarch 1, 2021

“There are no words…” with tragedy
Or times absurd or ends unknown
Is tragic in its own accord
For words may be all that we own

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“Saturn,” “One” and “Cemetery Walled”

In Issue 47, March 2021, Issues Archive by Justin-Paul StarlinMarch 1, 2021

As another moonlight saunters
on inlets,
let’s agree Saturn can set:
the moons will use its rings as a table,
and as euphoric as their blurry mind
can be like
MDMA intoxication.

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“Promotion Review in the Afterlife,” “My Thieves Are Lonely” and “Odd Boy”

In Issue 47, March 2021, Issues Archive by Bryn GribbenMarch 1, 2021

“We’ve been thinking,” the angels say
 (they work for Krishna now—God knows
he’s got too much to do, what with all
that attention the rich demand these days)
“and we’re going to send you back as a cat.”

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