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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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    Memories of a Peaceful Time by James Piatt

    May 15, 2022

    Fairer by December Lace

    January 1, 2020

    Before the Fall by Scott Elder

    January 1, 2020
  • 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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    Table of Contents: Issue 2

    March 1, 2019

    Goddess of Time by Robin Louise Smith

    September 1, 2019

    A Moment Lasts Forever by Christina Tang-Bernas

    May 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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    At the Stroke of Twelve by Faye Brinsmead

    September 1, 2019

    To an Inhabitant of Çatalhöyük by Lucy Whitehead

    July 1, 2020

    Quantum Love Letters by Meagan Noel Hart

    July 1, 2019
  • 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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    Time by Robert Grant

    January 1, 2019

    She can’t help herself by Mary Ford Neal

    October 1, 2020

    A Fairy Hearing by André N. Lepine

    January 1, 2020
  • 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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    Milk Teeth by McCaela Prentice

    July 1, 2020

    RPM by Aditya Shankar

    March 1, 2019

    Love and Alzheimer’s by Anannya Uberoi

    July 1, 2020
  • 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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    World Building by Lucy Whitehead

    April 4, 2020

    Dien Bien Phu, 1954 by Wayne Turmel

    March 1, 2019

    Table of Contents: Issue 3

    May 1, 2019
  • 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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    Night Wait by Fanni Sütő

    July 1, 2019

    Inevitable River by Robert Okaji

    November 1, 2019

    This Shattered Sky by Evan James Sheldon

    January 1, 2020
  • 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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    The Wedding March by Elizabeth Chatsworth

    January 1, 2020

    On the Glass Mountain by Neil Willcox

    January 1, 2020

    Snow White by Christina Ciufo

    January 1, 2020
  • Poetry,  Special Issue

    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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    Amidst the Junktique Dealer’s Goods & Moveables by Paula Bonnell

    January 1, 2020

    When I write about the military by Ron Riekki

    May 15, 2022

    Point Blank, Part 3 by Paige Bagby

    July 1, 2019
  • Poetry,  Special Issue

    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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    Racing a Fever Dream for Pinks by E. Samples

    April 4, 2020

    Tomorrow, A Physicist Sat On Your Sofa by Jonathan Payne

    May 1, 2019

    Kicking Up A Stink by Aviva Treger

    April 4, 2020
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