Donal Mahoney proposes…

by | Jan 21, 2012 | Prose & Poetry

Cats At Their Bowls Lapping This time there’s a postscript:“If ever I cook dinner for you,it will be Coquilles St. Jacquesand Jefferson Davis Pie.” Imagine Angela,after all these years,rising and glidingto check on my pie, wouldn’t that be...

Tess Jolly's 'The Hatch'

by | Jan 20, 2012 | Prose & Poetry

The Hatch  Each night I do the rounds, monitor hearts’ contractions  by lamplight’s gleam, press nerves down crumpled spines  and wrap skin round bones as paper holds a watermark’s ghost, graft cells onto glass-bound wings.I feed drops from a...

Ivor Murrell's 'Buttercup'

by | Jan 18, 2012 | Prose & Poetry

ButtercupThe boy was coaxed into the roomclad for the first timein his new school uniformnothing was saidthe heavy silence in the dim lightwarned of a new unknownleaden on the bedhis fearful eyes spokebut nothing else moved.After purposeful nudgingyoung lips sought...

Words and Image by Jim Davis

by | Jan 17, 2012 | Prose & Poetry

Hot Water Portrait: TranslationI said Reader, There’s romance in the article of how-to-burn-a-bush, of dusk with highway; trains. Let me explain how the pull-cord gesture damns the overpass. Orpheus reached for it, and it was gone. There is, are too distractions, pink...

Jenny Holden's 'Enclosure'

by | Jan 16, 2012 | Prose & Poetry

Enclosure The clock will follow the man, insofar as it will follow anyone. First, he must learn how to die. Then, how to live. There will be a desire to mark out, build walls and square off edges. Essential that he know the distance between the bars of shadow and...