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John Tustin – 3 Poems

I remember you now
as the mermaid on the rocks
who would have called me to crash
if I had ever dared to...

Paul Smith writes poetry & fiction. He lives near Chicago, has been published in the Rockford Review, Oyez, the Thieving…

All mountains are pretty much alike
they’re tall
they hurt you
it rains on them
every afternoon
so climb them early

Michael Salcman is a poet, physician and art historian. He was chairman of neurosurgery at the University of Maryland and…

In Bucha, where the flowers grow fat on the graves
and broken bricks and bent metal fill up the street,
young wives...

Sarah Harley is originally from the UK. She works at Milwaukee High School of the Arts where she supports her…

Inside my mother’s dark body, I developed lanugo and little limbs, my own fingerprints and bones. Her body recognized that...

Mario Loprete is a graduate of Accademia of Belle Arti , Catanzaro (ITALY).

I live in a world that I shape at my liking. I do this through virtual, pictorial, and sculptural movements,...

Marco Etheridge is a writer of prose, an occasional playwright, and a part-time poet. He lives and writes in Vienna,…

The shine trade kept her family fed, but Tess wanted more for her children. She was determined to keep Acey...

Andrew Jones is a Jamaican-American writer. He is currently a content writer at a global investment firm. Prior to this…