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“Mary Fleck,” “Something Out of Nothing,” and “In Rimini”

In Issue 82, April 2024, Issues Archive by Stephen BarileApril 5, 2024

Once, in another time, I traveled with my parents
In the 1951 Ford sedan to a distant part of the city.
You could call it a city, but everyone then
Referred to it only as a town.

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“Pursuit,” “The Endless,” and “The Unswept Sky”

In Issue 82, April 2024, Issues Archive by Marcia TrahanApril 4, 2024

The hawk’s shadow follows me.
Some smoker’s tar coats my lungs,
all the tiny quivering sacs.

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“Self-Sabotage,” “Freely Drifting,” and “Blissful Anguish”

In Issue 82, April 2024, Issues Archive by Maria VolodkevichApril 3, 2024

Like a cross stitch
I tied down your limbs
thread by thread
preventing you from flying

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“No Tree,” “Saint Valentine,” and “Dead Heisenberg”

In Issue 82, April 2024, Issues Archive by Jack D. HarveyApril 2, 2024

“No tree grows all the way to heaven,”
a darling end to a bible story
or Lenten play beginning
you might say;
a betrayal of trust

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“Easy to Forget,” “Sometimes,” and “the other road”

In Issue 82, April 2024, Issues Archive by Joanne JagodaApril 1, 2024

It’s really easy to forget
To put it all out of your mind
That you might be living with a debt which could be called in
Any time by that unforgiving debt collector

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“Spectacle of Spectacles”

In Issue 81, March 2024, Issues Archive by Annette YoungMarch 1, 2024

My Spectacles watched me seek for them
lowered their head with mine.
A clear silhouette of every
Twist
Turn
Bend

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“Elegy for the ‘Mule’ ”

In Issue 81, March 2024, Issues Archive by Stephen BarileMarch 1, 2024

No idea where it came from,
The pipe-threading lathe
Just presented itself
On the job when it was needed.
From the truck and tools,
We rested the Mule near the alley

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“My Near-Death Experience”

In Issue 81, March 2024, Issues Archive by Kathleen HollidayMarch 1, 2024

As near-death experiences go,
it was one of the best.
What more is there to tell?

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“So Far”

In Issue 81, March 2024, Issues Archive by Julie BeneshMarch 1, 2024

We’re on our last legs, and the legs are last to go;
the best metaphors die young, reborn as cliches.

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“Crisp the Surface”

In Issue 80, February 2024, Issues Archive by J. Parker MarvinFebruary 1, 2024

Shards of invention over
crisp dirt :: secreted
mouths whisper about
asexual
union and definitions :: small

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“Takers”

In Issue 80, February 2024, Issues Archive by Lumina MillerFebruary 1, 2024

Picking at the bones,
they feed from residual
ligaments left
post quiet carving

began with disinterest
proceeding to tsks tsks then
disregard

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“The Winters of the Sun”

In Issue 80, February 2024, Issues Archive by Lawrence BridgesFebruary 1, 2024

Like a title that keys no theme
Except an atmosphere, I slip into my clothes.
A doorknob, a checklist, a podcast
On an unsolved murder.

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“I Need Yesterdays” and “If Only to Look”

In Issue 79, January 2024, Issues Archive by Samuel GilpinJanuary 11, 2024

reprieve thickening
in threatening
the still winter light
encrusted as a high
gray sky in thickness
turning in another silence
as in the waiting

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“Where are Tolkien’s Ents?”

In Issues Archive, Winter 2024: Climate Crisis by Deborah FilanowskiJanuary 11, 2024

There is an army of ghost trees ringing the coastlines of the world.
Once verdant, evidence of a healthy environment,
now leafless, bleached white in death,
phantoms of the forest that once was.

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“Touring the Forest” and “Leaning Over the Rails”

In Issues Archive, Winter 2024: Climate Crisis by Jennifer PhillipsJanuary 11, 2024

This will help you to remember
what a forest was. This one, North Temperate.
Might have been where we are standing.
Here, adjust the strap
around your forehead, rest this over
the bridge of your nose. Click the button.
See.

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“Earth Cries and the Oceans Catch the Tears,” “Reservoir No More,” and “Summer — Memory or Prophecy?”

In Issues Archive, Winter 2024: Climate Crisis by Russell WillisJanuary 11, 2024

Each corner of a globe
With no corners
Born of the sea as
Liquid or solid
In dances with humans
And dances between humans
Fear and hope meet in their own dance
As the earth cries

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“Brood X”

In Issues Archive, Winter 2024: Climate Crisis by Marie-Louise EyresJanuary 10, 2024

Each insect turns a fraction on its axis, a cocooned child shifting in a half-sleep,
oblivious beyond cool mud to flames of wildfires as they streak across the hills
of Paradise.

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“something small has died”

In Issues Archive, Winter 2024: Climate Crisis by Patricia FranzJanuary 9, 2024

when they’re born…
they g r o w
they m o v e
crawl and
c a
l v
e

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“With Love, I Fall”

In Issues Archive, Winter 2024: Climate Crisis by Mary Beth KeenanJanuary 8, 2024

Looking deep into my child’s eyes,
I see both my ancestors and
my descendants, I fall
into a meditation about Mother Earth…

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“Home, Sick”

In Issues Archive, Winter 2024: Climate Crisis by Robert Eugene RubinoJanuary 7, 2024

Zero degrees outside while cozy warm inside
Mother opens apartment’s bedroom window
reels in creaky clothesline of dried laundry

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“Cycling,” “Utter,” and “Glass”

In Issue 78, October 2023, Issues Archive by Stephanie TrenchardOctober 1, 2023

On the ride to work I try to remember; did I make my bed?

—Wonder if I love myself, wonder if I care about my children’s children

Wonder where every plastic bottle went—each one I have sucked from and sent

on its journey, perhaps to landfill, and What does that pile look like

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“Sleeping,” “Elfie and My Mug,” and “The Land II”

In Issue 78, October 2023, Issues Archive by Malcolm GlassOctober 1, 2023

I think I’m sleeping, night long, more than I think,
And days blur like leaves in a pitch-long fall,
while clocks run on with numbers that always blink,

then flicker backwards. I close my eyes and sink
to dreams…

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“Good Old Dad,” “Nuns Fret Not,” and “That’s All Folks”

In Issue 78, October 2023, Issues Archive by Jack D. HarveyOctober 1, 2023

Had enough of it,
pushing along with
his job and family
and gave up.

Game over.

Good old dad,
always liked trains
and that’s where he went.

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“Tree Rings,” “The White Cat,” and “Goodbyes”

In Issue 78, October 2023, Issues Archive by Cami DuMayOctober 1, 2023

My skin told me first, when I saw his picture. The cold memory of touch
a frantic messenger, almost swifter
than the optic nerve. My body remembers.

So I got into the shower, ran it scalding, breathed
the vapor like medicine, the mist a place to lose myself,

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