Tag Issue 21 Spring 2023

Spring! Spring? Spring!

We will not take the roaring storms and violent bluster for granted; we will kiss Winter goodbye and pray to...

John Tustin is a regular contributor to the Thieving Magpie. His poetry is forthcoming in The MacGuffin, Neologism, SOFTBLOW and…

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).