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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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    Milk Teeth by McCaela Prentice

    July 1, 2020

    Morning Routine by Lydia Unsworth

    September 1, 2019

    The Cobbler by Jay Bechtol

    October 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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    Inevitable River by Robert Okaji

    November 1, 2019

    Anne Frank House by Judith Kingston

    November 1, 2019

    Trace by McCaela Prentice

    July 1, 2020
  • 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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    The Soldier by James Piatt

    May 15, 2022

    Ten Minutes Past Teatime by Elizabeth Chatsworth

    November 1, 2019

    Multiverse theory by Jasmina Kuenzli

    April 4, 2020
  • 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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    Ten Minutes Past Teatime by Elizabeth Chatsworth

    November 1, 2019

    People Are Filled With Patterns by Niall Power

    July 1, 2019

    Omaha Beach, Normandy by Danny P. Barbare

    May 15, 2022
  • 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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    Land Army Camouflage by Juliette van der Molen

    May 1, 2019

    Paradise Park by Amy Charlotte Kean

    January 1, 2019

    Old World by C.L. Spillard

    March 1, 2019
  • 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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    Waste by Lucy Whitehead

    May 1, 2019

    The Myth of Ophephone and Atlantis by Amanda N. Butler

    September 1, 2019

    The Mirror Lies by Lucy Zhang

    January 1, 2020
  • 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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    Snow White Sees the Mirror by Elizabeth Burk

    January 1, 2020

    The Nymph and the Maiden by Laura Kincaid

    January 1, 2020

    If you could see my memories by Juliette Sebock

    May 1, 2019
  • 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 Editor Has Come UnMoored In Time by Neil Willcox

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    The Soldier by James Piatt

    May 15, 2022
  • 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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    Jefferson Island, 1980 by Jack. B. Bedell

    November 1, 2019

    When I write about the military by Ron Riekki

    May 15, 2022

    Six Seeds by Alicia Fitton

    April 4, 2020
  • 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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    Recital by Scott Elder

    November 1, 2019

    Her Left Eye by R. Gerry Fabian

    May 1, 2019

    The Changing House by Luanne Castle

    July 1, 2020
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