Letter from the Editor

I should have known better.

Poems & Prose

Photography & Art

Artistically Inspired

Very few gains are dependent on pain

I was at home when I heard AEW breaking the news to Juvi's longtime foe, Chris Jericho

When asked about my experience, I just tell everyone, "It was quite a ride."

picture a tiger encountering a cricket in his roar.

I need to clean my fishbowl

Eden Herbstman
When Mental Health Checks Did Not Exist

I don't like to write about you though.

Stephen Kingsnorth
Bridge

But what remains when flesh is gone

Stephen Kingsnorth
Manes to Masques

Quixotic, in her dreamy way

Gary Koppel
I Met the Lone Ranger (or "Who Was That Masked Man?")

Chicago. November. 1969. Sunday afternoon.

John Johnson
Hidden Behind Masks

quirks : raccoons : scuba divers

Nate Maxson
The Magic Hour

No old photographs for us though, we're too young for that anachronism

Ramesh Dohan
Storied Life / Namesake

Love is but a trick of the light

Louis Faber
Carney Barker

I know you've seen quarters pulled from ears

Louis Faber
The Wall

You wonder if things had been different, if you hadn't enlisted

Natalie Kormos
If You're Being Me, Then Who's Being You?

Who would be there to twirl as you do, spinning around in your dancing shoes?

T.K. Lee
Native

I felt attractive in that color despite what you said about me in that color

Charlotte Kim
Mirror's Desire / 
Arachne the Grandma

Leathery hands weave

Mark Murphy
Lusus Naturae

You ask if perpetual dread is the result of boundless knowledge

Robert Alexander Wray
Autumn Tale

It seems impossible, with all this beauty around, death should be lingering here

Sharon Lask Munson
Behind Your Mask /
Little White Lies

Regretfully, I never got your message

Rita Anderson
Jogger Found

No matter how big the subsequent houses, you slept hearing the wind

Madari Pendas
Peluda

In modern Spanish, peluda is a derogatory word for a hairy woman.

Wendy Lou Schmidt
The Queen's Coiffeuse

Edward Supranowicz
That Disembodied Feeling

Amy Bassin & Mark Blickley
Terminal Blue

Alan Bern
cracked mask

Alan Bern
doves' morning

Lindsey Pucci
Come Play /
Percussion /
Sir

Karen Boissonneault - Gauthier
Face Forward

Connor Doyle
Doing Just Fine

Benjamin Stalnaker
Eden

We roleplayed Genesis by the creekside

Lucia Coppola
Aquila

Cliff diving fearless and freestyle