Namaste

Namaste

By Katie Vagnino   This is what happens when you sign up for a yoga class online and don’t read the fine print. It is an honest mistake, one I realize the moment I enter the studio and am confronted with posters of women smiling blissfully, their hands delicately...
Darker Edge of Green

Darker Edge of Green

By Jury S. Judge   Sundial peaks cast their angular shadow By the way of blessed pines Light travels in splintered sheets Through the dense virgin forest Fiddlehead ferns unfurl nervously Look at the darker edge of green   Soft moss responsive to rain...
The Entomologist

The Entomologist

By Rachel E. Layton     I was raised by a witch doctor. She taught me voodoo, and how to track down a killer by listening              to his victim’s maggots. She took me to visit convents of shamans; They’d let me dig bones from owl pellets. I found a...
We

We

By Ashley Gonzalez     Butterfly Hearts, Sisters of Fits and Starts, lend me your wings, those feathery things that make even shakiest voices sing. King of Brothers, lend me your crystal cutters, shining prisms of Light over lover’s skin. No sin in...
High Peak Fire

High Peak Fire

By Elaine Verdill     Not quite Pompeii or Vesuvius erupting but the smoke pours across the valley with the same dense intensity, all green to gray and the sunlight disappears   It’s not Mt. St. Helens again, no ash on the ground, but motes in the...
Country Lust

Country Lust

By Jenn Powers     he cleans his fingernails with a knife & cooks bone soup      fresh kill from the forest         blood flecks mud-caked construction boots            late afternoon light     purple now      cools the surface of work benches         ...

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