Writing is an act of resistance
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Wildness Unafraid
By Tim Murphy What if trees could talk? No. Of course they do. What if we could hear them speak just beneath our feet? What if birds of all feathers who lift the sky with song and frame it with flight told us what names to call them? What if we could simply bathe in…
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Suburban Median
By Myna Chang We see the body on the way to drop our kids off at school. It’s in the median at the Parkway stoplight. We don’t recognize what it is, at first. Understanding comes in pieces: leg, arm, slender foot. Naked, of course. We try to look away. But is it someone we…
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Wrong Rainbow
By L. Acadia Describing our droomhuis for Dutch class, my worksheet filled with my dream house’s garden: Hollyhocks, hydrangea higher than I, wrought iron table for morning coffee, serenading birds, frogs ringing a pond. My love wrote an interior my mind couldn’t fit: puppy-claw impervious tile floors, dormer bedroom, dinner-party primed kitchen, postprandial dancing…
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Two Poems by Deborah Hochberg
climate change, hope, climate crisis, Deborah Hochberg, water rights, home, nature reclaimed, extreme weather events, PoetryCongregation 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…
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what happened before the good sex
By Bryana Joy for God’s sake no more games she said setting the last set of lace panties in the trash i am befuddled by all this rigmarole this muddle this hullabaloo she threw a negligee out the door and all of her lipstick tubes i am i the only one you are you…
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that name
By William Palmer tide in— imagine waves scraping away that name and the lies upon lies that feed off it, dissolving them in foam imagine the mugshot gone the blue suits gone the long red ties around our country’s neck gone William Palmer’s poetry has appeared recently in JAMA, J Journal, One Art,…
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Point Blank
An Illustrated Poem by Jane Muschenetz MIT grad and former Bain Management Consultant, Jane Muschenetz arrived in the United States as a child refugee from Soviet Ukraine. She is a 2023 City of Encinitas Exhibiting Artist and winner of The Good Life Review 2022 Poetry Prize. Her debut poetry collection, All the Bad Girls Wear…
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What About the Men?
By Phyllis Wax A new drug for menopause is being hailed as a godsend for a condition many women endure in silence. Thing is, it costs $550 a month. And, unfortunately, hot flashes (hot flashes!) are among the most common side effects. They say it could also be toxic to the liver or affect…
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The Last Revolution
By Lorraine Schein The Last Revolution was yesterday. It was so successful, that all future revolutions were cancelled forever. A lesbian and her lover were elected President and Vice-President. Their lovemaking is televised nationally as part of the inaugural proceedings and greeted with applause by an appreciative at-home audience. Poets have been elected to…