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Photo: Ivo Oreshkov

Donal Mahoney Photo: ruresolitude In 1948 Booger McNulty’s coal yard stirred constant gossip among the citizens who lived in little bungalows on narrow blocks in my far corner of Chicago. That was more than 60 years ago, a time when families took Sunday walks and went back home in time to hear Jack Benny on […]

Photo: Ivo Oreshkov

Simeon Gasparov Photo: Loop_oh The scrawny sun in the crisp tenderness of telegraph wires has tripped while chasing its newborn inspiration. And remained there, hanging as a shining ball, until the end of Indian summer. After the first rain of October quietly Rolled back on our last, dusty, southern, lost highway… …One homeless dream barked […]

Photo: Ivo Oreshkov

Photo: Ivo Oreshkov

by Jonathan C. Beck Photo: Jonathan C. Beck What does one do when internet isn’t available? I know what I used to do. I would read books, hang out with friends, color, draw, watch TV and movies. I could still draw, but those other things aren’t readily available to me at the moment. I will […]

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Roman Kissiov Photo: (cc) Chadica “…You must have surely understood by then what Ithacas mean” C. Cavafy I am Odysseus, too, but unknown. No one ever heard of me, nobody knew about my shrewdness… Because I never left Ithaca. Never in my life did I meet Cyclopes, Laistrygones and Sirens. I did not build a […]

Kenneth Pobo Photo: angelandspot It’s not safe playing gigs in rotgut bars in small towns. I’m told “Be careful, Dindi.” I’m careful, though I gladly invite black cats to walk across my path. A metal infant, the gun sleeps in my purse. I’d never be a good mother. Too much of my own mother in […]

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Sheri L. Wright Photo: Sheri L. Wright I follow the moon through Spanish moss and cypress, the song of nocturnals rippling across heat that stews summer long past its season. The eyes of shades – those of the lost and discarded – peer from underneath centuries and secrets stained black with death, trail after me […]

Photo: Ivo Oreshkov

Photo: Ivo Oreshkov

Photo: Ivo Oreshkov

Photo: Ivo Oreshkov

Photo: Ivo Oreshkov

Photo:Ivo Oreshkov

Photo: Ivo Oreshkov

Photo: Ivo Oreshkov