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Poetry, Special Issue

Honor Box by Janet M. Greenstreet

Worn and tattered, the Western Union telegram holds her heart within its folds. Shall I make wedding plans for Thursday or Saturday? She will wait for him to send word.…

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May 15, 2022
Poetry, Special Issue

At the Airport by Catherine Zickgraf

I bring our children with chestnut hair.We mixed ourselves making them, saw we faredwell in an untested marriage.  For a decade, thin cottonwrapped the bed.  At night, all poverty forgotten.…

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May 21, 2022
Poetry, Special Issue

Domain of the Golden Dragon, January 1952 by Janet M. Greenstreet

Munitions jeeps abandoned, each mortar shell is carried to the front on our backs,brass logs peering like mournersover shoulders in solitary confinement. Dirt chokes oxygen from a listless sky, the surrounding hills…

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May 15, 2022
Poetry, Special Issue

War Return by Catherine Zickgraf

She’s mentally moving him in, refreshing the drawer of cotton undershirts, stackinghis tees in rectangles, ironing polo collars. His irises will glow again as sapphire and jade waves of shirts layering the…

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May 21, 2022
Poetry, Special Issue

Come Home Soldier by Christina Ciufo

American flag, half mass withthin canary lights penetrating through its creases, waving, while he solemnly walked downthe paved road, with his head half-lowered, veiled by the flag’s shadow.  Green eyes dimmed, like a melancholy flame…

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May 15, 2022
Poetry, Special Issue

Purple Heart by Janet M. Greenstreet

From a pallet on the ground I write home that my shrapnel wound is healing.I joke about being named to the hospital’s board of directors. This is not like any…

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May 15, 2022
Poetry, Special Issue

Memories of a Peaceful Time by James Piatt

Screams in broken languages of anguish slash into sand and rock leaving a gory scarlet tint to sandy dust soaring high into the air. A cold hopelessness lingers over the…

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May 15, 2022
Poetry, Special Issue

Here We Are by Ed Ahern

What can be said or doneAbout what hasn’t happened?Yet living in the momentturns away the inner eyefrom anticipated pleasuresand awaited fears.If we portray ourselvesas what we wish to be,perhaps we…

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May 15, 2022
Poetry, Special Issue

Omaha Beach, Normandy by Danny P. Barbare

Whatdoeshesee lookingoutthekitchenwindow smokingacigarette anddrinkingaMillerbeer? Statement from the author: I would get up in the middle of the night and dad would be drinking a Miller beer. Looking out the dark…

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May 15, 2022
Poetry, Special Issue

Valor Concealed by Jason O’Toole

Finally, Paris.Way of Utah Beach,Battle of the Bulge,              Buchenwald. “Now Entering GermanyCourtesy of the Super Sixth” Grandpa as a young tourist.First trip abroad,stops along The River Seine.Garand over shoulder slung. Handsome in…

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May 15, 2022
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  • Poetry,  Special Issue

    Soldier’s Lament by Matthew M.C. Smith

    May 22, 2022 /

    He’d have got meif I hadn’t got him first but I took a lifeI will always be alone I will take him with meto my graveGod rest his soul ____________________________________________________________ Matthew M.C. Smith is a Welsh poet from Swansea. He is published by Icefloe Press, Wellington Street Review, Seventh Quarry,…

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  • Poetry,  Special Issue

    Khormaskar by Matthew M.C. Smith

    May 22, 2022 /

    In 1967, the Royal Marines were sent to South Yemen to support the evacuation of the British from the port of Aden, a colony. My father was in Four Five Commando unit.                      I Aden, South Yemen, ‘67,Empire’s light on eastern straits.Blades beating, rotor thunderWestlands thump, ascend, gyre;break, split from assault…

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    The Biggest News in History by Anderson Fonseca

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    March 1, 2019
  • Poetry,  Special Issue

    Four Five Commando by Matthew M.C. Smith

    May 22, 2022 /

    Dartmoor speedmarch ’6630 miles, do or die,de-humans, rake-thin,carry loads on backs.Thick boots, breath-beaten,noses, jaws, like bladesof cattle boneslittered on route. Men of arms,of Four Five Commando,see beyond the upland hill-rim;a promise of rainto a green beretbeyond spit, pain. Checkpoints of stones,jokes are thin,frame-ache, sting of sweat,body-rack past forest trackswhere whippet-lads leadand…

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    Immigrant’s Son by Shawn Anto

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    In the Days Leading Up to Your Death by Janet M. Greenstreet

    May 15, 2022
  • Poetry,  Special Issue

    Ready or Not by Frank Light

    May 21, 2022 /

    Hearing no evil, fearing no manprospective friends alreadycomfortable in their own sins and pancho linerssleep the sleep of regular hoursundisturbed by passing showersundetected scouts or unresolved doubtslet alone the zoned-out still up-and-about newbie too many days in transit, temporarily moodyantsy, goosy, small-town rube with much to prove, Repo Ray broods heblew his…

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    Beyond Time by Yuan Changming

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  • Poetry,  Special Issue

    At the Airport by Catherine Zickgraf

    May 21, 2022 /

    I bring our children with chestnut hair.We mixed ourselves making them, saw we faredwell in an untested marriage.  For a decade, thin cottonwrapped the bed.  At night, all poverty forgotten. But we separated again—he went to war, mortars of nailsand oven air.  At home, I handled homework and ailments.I knew…

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    The Little Mermaid Contemplates the Knife by Allison Armstrong

    January 1, 2020

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  • Poetry,  Special Issue

    Redeployed by Catherine Zickgraf

    May 21, 2022 /

    She crochets upstairsfrom his lonely chair,tuning out the rockets of July-smoke sky. For bills not flags, yetshe chained her youthto the steel of his military-morgue toe-tag. Under lashes like willows, still she weeps,feeling how his fingerslast brushed along hers.  Her dreams pull skeins,and months of stitchingare years she blankets in…

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    One Hundred Years of Dreaming by Chris Collins

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  • Poetry,  Special Issue

    War Return by Catherine Zickgraf

    May 21, 2022 /

    She’s mentally moving him in, refreshing the drawer of cotton undershirts, stackinghis tees in rectangles, ironing polo collars. His irises will glow again as sapphire and jade waves of shirts layering the marriage quilt. She’s moving over, moving over to her own side of the bed. They’ll fuse their     divided ship, co-captain it. Yet…

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  • Poetry,  Special Issue

    In the Days Leading Up to Your Death by Janet M. Greenstreet

    May 15, 2022 /

    You saw someone without a face waiting in whitesitting on your hospital cot against the dried-up paneled wall of our living room. we were watching Antiques Roadshow He arrived a few days before silently walking around the house room to roomrustling corner cobwebs. Our conversation lingered over who he might be what he may wantwhy only…

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    Purple Heart by Janet M. Greenstreet

    May 15, 2022 /

    From a pallet on the ground I write home that my shrapnel wound is healing.I joke about being named to the hospital’s board of directors. This is not like any medical facility I have ever seen: dirt floor operating room, a single light bulb swinging overhead, air sprayed with blood…

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    Domain of the Golden Dragon, January 1952 by Janet M. Greenstreet

    May 15, 2022 /

    Munitions jeeps abandoned, each mortar shell is carried to the front on our backs,brass logs peering like mournersover shoulders in solitary confinement. Dirt chokes oxygen from a listless sky, the surrounding hills laugh at such fools. I advance gray and numban odd levitation—no sensation in my body. Remembering my younger self rowing across…

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