Poetry – Issue 5.1
Hare by Jane Lovell Early morning air slice-cold below total blue, and he’s sitting, bold as a stray, on the lawn tasting the breeze, absorbing every ripple wit...
Hare by Jane Lovell Early morning air slice-cold below total blue, and he’s sitting, bold as a stray, on the lawn tasting the breeze, absorbing every ripple wit...
The Skeffling Whale by Pippa Little Embedded in salt marsh she was a crashed balloon musty as church myrrh the man who found her, who walked widdershins round h...
The Meter Magpie by Anna Cathenka scoobidy boo bop the magpie talks in meter feet are bib bob scatting stealing shiny snippets the rib rib magpie mimics artists...
Genesis by Susan DeFreitas This morning’s creation wavers below me, as special as any, close enough to touch: a fish with arms and two tiny ruffs sprouting from...
The Kill List by Ann Cefola He said his friend worked at the ASPCA or something. He paused. Actually euthanized dogs, pit bulls mostly… Unable to listen, I see ...
A Hyacinth Macaw by Eileen Malone The pet shop hung with giant black iron coops holds exotic birds a hyacinth macaw, newly captured the only one to survive the ...
Afterworld by Susan Richardson Here, all animals are equal, equal in extinction. The Moa, long ago an is-no-more, dozes with the Golden Toad; the Aurochs should...
The Ornithologist by Anita John So small is your skull, short-eared owl, so black your beak (that blessed the lives of mouse and vole); so hollow your eyes whic...
Horseshoe Crab by Oonah V Joslin horseshoe crabs the sang royal of living fossils are blue-blooded hemocyanins copper bottom feeders under their carapace like a...