Public Republic

Drew Logan Photo: Vince Alongi If it rained they met under the bridge in secret If the Sun shone they met in the park in public Everyday they solved the world’s problems No one took notes

Peter Kraevski Снимка: kwanz Wondrous territory Alogical and cruel dictatorship Its limits are the horizon And utopias are its reality In the morning you get going And at noon undetectably you are beyond return Translation: Katerina Stoykova-Klemer

Therése Halscheid Photo: gromgull I have just finished sweeping a place in the glade where a bed is now made of star moss and blossoms. I have ordered a moon to come softly, its white through the trees, birds for the sky, a waterfall lovely to listen to. Come, step out of the dream of […]

By Donal Mahoney Photo: aloshbennett Two men tall, one from here and one from there,

Changming Yuan Photo: Mira Dimova Orchid: Deep in the valley Alone on an obscure spot You bloom none the less Lotus: From foul decayed silt You shoot clean against the sun Never pollutable Mum: Hanging on and on Even when wishes wither You keep flowering Plum: Your brave bold blood dropped As though to melt […]

Therése Halscheid Photo: bortescristian The moon shows me a place beyond this darkness below an area of low ground where you stand among flowers, you in the natural silence of your being in the quiet hours your strong hands own. You with a hoe working that same plot of earth watering the magnolia I never […]

Donal Mahoney Photo: Rocklin Autumn’s over. Wheat cake odors flood the wood front porch. Andrew Block, in mackinaw and overalls, tamps first tobacco of the day and estimates his morning. In an open field beyond McDiver’s Creek Andrew Block can see his colt, palamino apricot and snow, nip grass between great gallops and the shock […]

By Heather Wyatt Photo: Denise ~*~ I stare upward after you make a surprisingly loud thud in my light fixture. You and your kind have invaded my house. Swarms of thousands, red, with black dots, a design to imply innocence but you fly at my mouth and eyes. So, I see you, wandering along in […]