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Two Poems by Deborah Hochberg

By | 2023-12-10T11:14:56-08:00 December 13th, 2023|Categories: Issue 142: December 2023|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

Congregation of Ibis    “A barrage of storms has resurrected what was once the largest body of fresh water west of the Mississippi River, setting the stage for a disaster this spring.” – from “Tulare Lake Was Drained Off the Map. Nature Would Like a Word," Soumya Karlamangla and Shawn Hubler, New York Times, April 2, [...]

The Lure of Socks on Warm Feet

By | 2023-09-04T10:59:04-07:00 September 13th, 2023|Categories: Issue 141: September 2023|Tags: , , , , , , , |

By Amelia Díaz Ettinger Never forget, September 20, 2017 and Maria   In my La-Z-Boy I sit, a Puerto Rican queen, feet-up admiring my knitted socks. I made these socks by knit and purl. 5,746 miles away from you it is easy to say, I worship. —And oh! How I preach this veneration, the warmth of [...]

September Together

By | 2023-03-11T11:19:42-08:00 March 15th, 2023|Categories: Issue 139: 16 March 2023|Tags: , , , , |

By Elizabeth Shack   Last September, we hiked the forest beside the fog-drenched sea. Followed a swift stream bridged with salmon spawning, returning from gray Pacific homes. Switchbacked beside a waterfall sparkling down steep granite. Emerged into sunlight with a view of lichen-painted rock and the blue-white ice that once sculpted this verdant valley. Is still [...]

Love Songs for End Times

By | 2022-09-11T13:35:19-07:00 September 29th, 2022|Categories: Issue 137: 29 September 2022|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

By Zoë Fay-Stindt   I sing to the green anole in a made-up lizard language— fiddling tongue, whirlwinds and whistle- clucks. He curves his neck, ear hole craned to my porch perch. He pinks his bubble-throat. For years, I saw devil horns peeking from each human head. Yes, the chemical, the highway framed with fields and [...]

Changing Names

By | 2022-03-06T12:19:09-08:00 March 17th, 2022|Categories: Issue 135: 17 March 2022|Tags: , , , , |

Mendocino, California   By Frederick Livingston after how many years does “drought” erode into expected weather? and then what name when the rains do come startling the hard earth the exhausted aquifers? we’ll sing to the deep wells the quieted fire and clean sky “winter” brittle in our mouths holding vigil for rivers elders insects lovers [...]

Deputized

By | 2021-11-26T12:19:25-08:00 December 15th, 2021|Categories: Issue 134: 15 December 2021|Tags: , , , , , , |

By Holly A. Stovall   Congratulations! You are Deputized! Abortion after 6 weeks is illegal in Texas. Help enforce the law by reporting an illegal abortion in the anonymous form below! How do you think the law has been violated? I've had three spontaneous abortions (that's doctor lingo for miscarriages) in three years, each at 8 [...]

Backyard Musings in America at Twilight

By | 2021-09-12T13:07:04-07:00 September 22nd, 2021|Categories: Issue 133: 22 September 2021|Tags: , , , , , |

By Ashley R. Carlson   6:52 p.m. Summer, twilight, after a thunderous lightning-streaked monsoon that flooded streets and yards and sent trashcans floating into traffic-stalled intersections. Seventy-eight degrees here in Phoenix, uncharacteristically tolerable for the Sonoran desert mid-August. A breeze ruffles my hair, my German shepherd panting nearby as she lifts her long, jet-black snout to [...]

Election Day

By | 2021-06-18T13:00:23-07:00 June 19th, 2021|Categories: Issue 131: 19 June 2021|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

By Elizabeth Edelglass   We stand in line beside our mothers’ stockinged legs, line snaking through the gymnasium, where yesterday we’d also snaked through same gymnasium, mouths agape for the healing cube, sugar our mothers said, but bitter, live virus, our parents had said, to save us from the deadly virus, their voices husky with fear, [...]

Humanity

By | 2020-09-15T16:10:15-07:00 September 17th, 2020|Categories: Issue 118: 17 September 2020|Tags: , , , , |

By Steven Croft   Wants to believe kindness, its namesake, can still a morning rain of bombs, calm the lightning strike of artillery shells on cratered streets scorched hot and unlivable as the surface of the sun Wants to believe foresight will quiet the chainsaws' outcry against ancient trees in the last remaining rainforests, make abandoned [...]

The Fire Still Burns

By | 2020-09-15T16:27:13-07:00 September 17th, 2020|Categories: Issue 118: 17 September 2020|Tags: , , , , , |

By Gary Priest   Fire makes us all believers. There's a unity in fear that allowed science and religion to merge into a rational hysteria that swept us all along on a wave of koala memes and apocalypse FOMO. The eco-inspired crimewave started in the mid 2020s. This was not just shutting down airport runways or [...]

Sonnet: Australia in 2020

By | 2020-06-22T17:26:46-07:00 June 25th, 2020|Categories: Issue 113: 25 June 2020|Tags: , , , , |

By Chris Collins ‘graves from which a glorious Phantom may Burst, to illumine our tempestuous day’                      – P. B. Shelley, England in 1819   An orange light, pale, sickly, dying Chokes the sky, while it anaesthetises. Infected air, poisoned, thick and blinding, But smoke can’t shroud [...]

Fire Storm: Poem Beginning with a Line from Jane Kenyon

By | 2020-06-22T17:34:21-07:00 June 25th, 2020|Categories: Issue 113: 25 June 2020|Tags: , , , , |

By Lynn Wagner   Into light all things must fall, glad at last to have fallen while the crown fires burn and branches break, charred and brittled to the tall trees’ bones. Fall down from the sky fantails, so stumble purple swamphen along the shore. And day is night and ash is all while pyrocumulonimbus counterclockwise [...]

Scrolling

By | 2020-05-09T14:43:28-07:00 May 14th, 2020|Categories: Issue 110: 14 May 2020|Tags: , , , , |

By Laura Grace Weldon   Two penguin chicks are the only survivors of a 40,000 bird Antarctic colony. I imagine fuzzy hatchlings chirping for food till silent, scroll on to read about a dog taught to talk with an adaptive device. Stella, a mixed breed, already uses 29 words although her choices don’t include “why.” All [...]

Subliminal and Unanimous Dreams of the Future

By | 2020-01-20T19:31:54-08:00 January 23rd, 2020|Categories: Issue 102: 23 January 2020|Tags: , , , |

By Kimberly Kaufman   In the shadowy, damp cities of our eon no Martian parent will guilt their children into eating their slimy green protein crumbles with stories of the starving Children of Earth As the dust storms rage above no Martian child will flick internal game consoles, the giant screens their only chance to marvel [...]

On the President’s Announcement of Our Hashtag

By | 2020-11-06T16:15:03-08:00 September 19th, 2019|Categories: Issue 95: 19 September 2019|Tags: , , , , |

By John Linstrom   The President announced we need to keep some carbon in the ground; he sounded sure, his raised and lowered index finger maybe mimicking an oil rig I’ve seen on my computer screen. I caught his talk distilled at first, a single image meme, hashtagged to my cell phone’s glowing face, the floating [...]