Issue 35 | September 2018 |
Issue 35 | September 2018 |
Poetry- Ceinwen E Cariad Haydon
The Skater at the local rink
her skates cut trails
fingernails scratch wooden handrails
she clings on for dear life.
out in the woods
a lake
mute swans skitter on floes
mis-footed...
Issue 35 | September 2018 |
Ruby Red Never Forget- Lyn Ann Byrne
“I remember you,” the stranger sang, back handling the door
Issue 35 | September 2018 |
Half a Boy – New Fiction
“Mattie, stop. You’ll burn the house down,” said Mam, prodding me in the back with the poker, the other day. But there’s no heat in...
Issue 35 | September 2018 |
Carolyn Jess-Cooke: Boom!
Carolyn Jess-Cooke: Boom!
ISBN-13: 9781781721759 Published by Seren Carolyn Jess-Cooke Carolyn Jess-Cooke was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1978 and currently lives in north-east England. She is mother to four...
Issue 35 | September 2018 |
Poetry by Charles G Lauder
Looking Back The moment was a colossus we built up to,
at first with wheelbarrows of sand
to mix the mortar, simple bamboo scaffolding,
then, as tension mounted,...
Abhaile: With Tracy Gaughan
3 poems by Emma Lee
Stitching America (for Gloria) It started at Kansas, roughly centre,
and two strands of blue for back stitches: the calm, smooth line of a river.
At each stitch, it...
Issue 35 | September 2018 |
“Over Land, Over Sea:
The idea for "Over Land, Over Sea: poems for those seeking refuge" (Five Leaves, 2015) started in August 2015 with a Facebook group bringing together the publisher, co-editors and supporters
Issue 35 | September 2018 |
Five Poems Anne Walsh Donnelly
THE CONFESSIONAL BOX Women cluck like hens outside the door,
they interrupt Fr. Doyle’s thoughts.
Joan doesn’t cluck, her voice a double bass,
her laugh, a well-tuned string.
He...
Issue 35 | September 2018 |
6 poems from Tom Paine
No one ever told me to stand in the woods and await dusk.
Issue 35 | September 2018 |
Still Waters – fiction by David Butler
After the estate flooded for the third time, Clodagh determined never to return. The thought of the dank interior, silted and filthy, filled her...
Issue 35 | September 2018 |
Family and Dolls, Poetry by Joan Colby
THE DOLL At Marshall Fields that year
When I was eight,
They took a photograph to make
A doll with my face,
My wavy auburn hair. I unwrapped that doll
On...
Issue 35 | September 2018 |
What I Didn’t Tell My Father, Poetry Ann Howells
What I Didn’t Tell My Father mosquitoes swirl like ash in headlights& priests call bingo from pulpitsup & down the shorearound our table relatives...
Issue 35 | September 2018 |
Collaboration
We are a little over 13,000 kilometres apart, and we’re actually very thankful to the internet for
Issue 35 | September 2018 |
The Last Time We Saw Strangers – Reviewed
The Last Time We Saw Strangers, by Christopher Hopkins
Clare Songbirds Publishing House Chapbook Series
ISBN 978-1-947653-24-5 In the new year in Issue 20, I was pleased to...
Issue 35 | September 2018 |
What Vachel Lindsay Said- Will Reger
What Vachel Lindsay Said What Vachel Lindsay saidin faithful song he shoutedfull-cocked, full-blownfull-throated,until his evening felland music went out of the bonein the blast of...
Issue 35 | September 2018 |
The Fates and Other Poems – Clifton Redmond
The Fates You sit and cry at her polished porcelain feetwith moss and gravel for a bedand grieve the un-lived life.Her frozen stare outstaring...
Issue 35 | September 2018 |
Dear Sisters and Other Poems- Bev Smith
dear sisters
our tree’s stretch
of skyward is slowing
as is their leaf fall,
wrap of blankets,
and hopeful reach again for spring breathless trips on summer stumbles of things forgotten
upon
faces fanned by noon
to...
Issue 35 | September 2018 |
Five New Poems by Matt Duggan
The Citadel Metal spikes made from blue glass and silver are unhooked –
pierced inside shop entrances when closed
like dystopian fly- traps laid out to deter...
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