Category: issue one
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Editor’s Note and Pushcart Nominations
It’s been a wild time; the talent, passion, and drive of today’s poets is marbled moondust. This issue is a sweet-spot of avant garde and heartstring poetry with a calm upperhand on delivery. All have heart, shape, and verve. Some are avant garde in nature while others grounding in the sences. Thank you to all…
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The Melody of Fear by Anisha Kaul
The Attic window Rattles at the dead of night Knocking fiercely at the dreamy lull The trance broken, chimes ring clearer Struck by the cold wind or was it a desolate hand? At each step, the floor creaks, outside a leaf unfastens softly Her unsteady hands, carefully drape the gloomy silence Advances and reckons it…
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Solace by Anthony R.Salandy
(Beir Bua’s Pushcart Nominations 2021) Unlit rooms guide my shallow stepsAs conflicting thoughts echoAnd give strange conversationTo my solitary mind, Each room gives no new truthAs I stumble and lose stepUntil the walls reverberateA silence deafening- And my sobering innocenceIs removed and that all powerful quietGrows to crescendoAnd my faith in finding understanding- Becomes a…
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“Man” and His Future by Brian O’Donnell
Look at the outgoing shy manHe walks down the streetEverybody looks at himBut nobody sees himHe’s been pursued by his present chasing his pastBut the future will save him See the teetotalerInto the pub he goesSees the man with no faceGives him a cup of lonelinessIn the future there will be company I am independent!…
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Rocket Launch by Kenneth Johnson
Somewhere there’s a map with photosof our facespressed against the panes of our windowsstaring out at geometric patterns generatedby algorithmsSome concerned citizens filed a lawsuit,their houses were bulldozed while theybought groceriesIf I can build a rocket, I’ll launch it into space,I’ll sell advertising and put company logos on allits visible partsAs a kid, I pushed…
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The Christmas Ornaments by Priyanka Srivastava
That old Santa in the shoe boxthose golden stars.They wait for me to be pickedto be dusted and placednear the Christmas tree. The many poemsin those memories,those old stories.They wait for me to be heardso that I can unbox them againfor the festival. Author bio: Priyanka Srivastava is a writer based in Singapore, her poems are…
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After Dad By K. S. Moore
(Beir Bua’s Pushcart Nominations 2021) You are a king:a king with a haloof unfledged stars. Their hue, unfixed,finds home, somewherebetween gold and silver. And in that space betweendreaming and waking, you shinefor unearthly seconds. Do you think of meas I think of you?Do you miss me, recalla memory only to feel itbeat your heart into…
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Walk the Alligator by Robin McNamara
Johnny boy rides the wavesof lying days and fantasy.He walks the alligatorin the mornings,while the mechanism of lies,whirr incessantly inside his head;whilst walking the alligator.Rent a friends know and show,with a tired look;‘I read you like a book.’The stories that you cook,from an overripe imagination.You tell the tales, we sail the bullshiton a daily basis.…
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Fever Pitch by Alyssa Asaro
The temperature rose quietlySweat culminating like words unsaidYou yelled at meFor the first timeAnd I couldn’t help but be a little gladTo finally be seen as someone you could get mad atAn equal in rageI let out a smileA slip that didn’t go unnoticedWe were getting somewhereFar more comfortable than anywhere we’ve ever beenA detour…
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Anxiety by Andi Talbot
(Beir Bua’s Pushcart Nominations 2021) I shake handswith hands that shakewith my anxietiesand he just smilesand stares a holestraight through me before returningto pacing the cornersof my mindnowinfected with his antics on a more than regular basishe starts byshaping my day before I wakeand closes us outby twisting my dreams before I sleep there’s no…
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