7 Haiku by Catfish McDaris
Aida She is always there my only true love forever her smile is my soul. 爱达 她总是无时不在 我唯一永恒的真爱 其笑容乃我之灵魂 California Dance during summer maki...
3 Poems by JoyAnne O'Donnell
Lake of Peace Warm peace flows gently calling us softly on the waves of fragile on the sands soft tile where I can rest a while the lak...
Cover photo by Rowan Blair Colver
bionote I am an English writer and creative artist, author of many varied books and contributor to several blogs and magazines. Having es...
5 poems by rob mclennan
The little nothings, The words are already there, you just have to read them Lesley Yalen, the beg...
Editorial Notes
dear PP Friends, before leaving for beijing on a medical trip, we hope the earlier-than-usual release of this issue finds you all well and h...
5 Poems by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs
MORNING This morning is clear as its conscience. Spring-loaded lambs have much to do: they nibble, suckle, chew an itching limb and waste ...
3 Poems by Erren Geraud Kelly
Twentynine Palms, California ruby slippers lie in the desert like quarter notes maybe a little girl was here a lovely desert rose? if no one...
3 Poems by Randall Karlen Rogers
It Might Be True (but I beg to differ) I walked out of Nowhere last night and went to that Somewhere I've never really been comfortable ...
5 Poems by Jackson
Please wait to be seated Please wait to be seated. You will be shown to good seats but you will have to surrender. Stand there and wait. Y...
4 Poems by Jerry McGinley
COLD DECEMBER NIGHT Cold December night, the soft white belly of the moon bounces light against my window. A ghost taps my shivering shoul...
3 Poems by Olivia Lewis
Ramekin In the kitchen, the ramequin Sits and in its white angelic Placidity, holds forth and Sings, and its insufflation Makes the soufflé...
3 Poems by William Bernhardt
Revelation For those who thirst there’s a waterfall For those who ache there’s tender embrace For those who think they’re a...
3 Poems by Stephen Collis
your purists are where we are going I cannot forthwith the mechanism some clouds new wind all the change we’d enable comes out carnage to...
2 Poems by David Francis
The Early Morning Guard’s Song The steam is gone it has served its purpose the train is gone either disembarking or boarding the cows have ...
3 Poems by Jennifer Hoffmann
Spring I notice a small branch on Fairlawn Avenue. Tiny, bare, like a Tai Chi pose, it lies vulnerable in the busy road. I bring it home and...
1 Poem by Tim Staley
Stalled Ink At the grocery store Lois searches in her wallet, her pockets, her planner, her purse, her phone… The girl at the register eats...
1 Poem by Linda Woolven
Twilight When the sky turns slate, and grows still and silent, and twilight touches with its smudge of suggestions. And all tones become...
2 Poems by Amber Forbes
Dear Hunger Pangs, This desert body needs no oasis. You feed this lovely barrenness-- emptiest desert ever seen. Storms come through, thund...
5 Poems by Bryan R. Monte
The Curse Thrown across the bare wood floor the crumpled, yellow legal paper half opens against the skirting-board; a knotted fist or a rose...
2 Poems by Michael Caylo-Baradi
Anchor A box of photos sinks me back to giggles lost in sand building castles over and over again. Distance is a park playing hide and ...
2 Poems by Jonathan Cooper
Vegas Dry throat, burnt eyes, he found his way outside to the shock of open air the red dusk sky. Drifting from the hotel’s hulked mass, he ...
2 Poems by Stefanie Bennett
THE SPOILS Those who know when old Is new again are The ‘Bareback Riders’ Before The Age of Quartz. Who speak ‘if’ spoken To, yet curse A pu...
3 Poems by Heikki Huotari
HOW TO When taste buds open in the winter morning of the mouth, the ultraviolets are pollinated by the scintillating fog of ice, the final r...
