Poetry

“dispatches from the desk of Danel: the self-designated disciple and messianic anger- management translator”

Matthew E. Henry (MEH)

Issue 7

“…and who is my neighbor?”

Matthew E. Henry (MEH)

Issue 1

“God is growing.” –Rainer Maria Rilke

Charles Kesler

Issue 5

[ A Home of Our Own ]

Edward Gunawan

Issue 5

10 Things I Learned in the ‘10s

Bryana Joy

Issue 3

2020

Kesi Augustine

Issue 2

3%

Ben Macnair

Issue 8

A Beautiful Thing

Zvi A. Sesling

Issue 1

A Book Club on Death Row

Estill Pollock

Issue 6

A Few Lines for Sue

Thomas DeFreitas

Issue 3

a fragile soul in search of a friend

Carlos Carrio

Issue 1

A Lamentation for the Test Taker

Thad DeVassie

Issue 1

A moonlit night

Maisha Tahsin Rubai

Issue 1

A Passion

Alison Davis

Issue 5

A POEM’S LAST GIFT (PERHAPS)

Michael Salcman

Issue 8

A Shout from the Dark

Pui Ying Wong

Issue 1

A Thousand Tiny Murders

Andrew Gudgel

Issue 2

A Tree Grows on the Stone Wall

Pui Ying Wong

Issue 1

Acceptance

Robbie Gamble

Issue 4

Accepting Love and Fear

Carolyn Chilton Casas

Issue 7

Accident of Birth

James Hannon

Issue 2

After last danger of frost is past

Linda Buckmaster

Issue 6

after listening to a past life regression hypnosis I found on Youtube (for the fourth time)

Nicolette Daskalakis

Issue 6

After the Fire Rolls Through

t.m. thomson

Issue 1

Afterlives

M.B. McLatchey

Issue 1

Again and Again

Nadia Colburn

Issue 2

ALL HALLOWS EVE

Kristin Camitta Zimet

Issue 7

All We Want is Love

Gary Rainford

Issue 1

Alpha Centauri

Alonso Nina Rubinstein

Issue 1

Already August

Janet Powers

Issue 7

Altar

Deborah Leipziger

Issue 1

Amnesty — Application

Noluthando Naledii Mashiane

Issue 3

Among the Things I Do Not Understand

Joseph Hardy

Issue 5

An angel being dragged through Hell alive

Alexandra Guzman

Issue 1

Analects on Love

Will Reger

Issue 2

And Then All of A Sudden

Brian Ragsdale

Issue 6

Angel with One Scorched Wing

J.M.R. Harrison

Issue 5

ANGELS

Valerie Wohlfeld

Issue 5

Another

Kevin Griffin

Issue 4

Another Feast Day of Kuan Yin

Diana Woodcock

Issue 1

Apatura iris

Noelle Floyd

Issue 3

Aphasia

Niels Hav

Issue 1

Aphorisms on the Origins of Love

Anesa Miller

Issue 5

April

Marjorie Maddox

Issue 1

Archangels of Childhood

Dimitry Blizniuk

Issue 4

Arguments for Faith

Claudia Buckholts

Issue 8

Astavakra was born crooked for laughing in the womb

Kelani Padilla

Issue 6

Asterism

Eric Pankey

Issue 2

At Duck I Am As Tired As The World

R.S. Mengert

Issue 1

At The Abbey

Ariana Alvarado

Issue 6

At the End of the Day

Mary Elizabeth Birnbaum

Issue 4

Autumn This Year

Jacqueline Coleman-Fried

Issue 3

Backyard Dancer

Deidre Sullivan

Issue 8

Bellini: Madonna

Julio Martínez Mesanza

Issue 1

Between Words and Worlds

Leslie Smith Townsend

Issue 1

Black Bean Sutra

Laurence Musgrove

Issue 4

Black book of hours

William Orem

Issue 6

Black Mulberry

Blake Everitt

Issue 8

Blackness: Night before Ash Wednesday, 2020

Patrice Wilson

Issue 2

Blessing

Sarah DeCorla-Souza

Issue 1

Blessing the Face

Lenny Lianne

Issue 7

BLM

Tukur Ridwan

Issue 2

Blue is a Being

Patrice Pinette

Issue 6

Body Language

Gale Acuff

Issue 1

Bootstrapper

Devon Balwit

Issue 7

Border

Patricia Davis

Issue 6

Both & Neither

Jaimeson Oakley

Issue 4

Breaking Open the Word

Rosie Prohías Driscoll

Issue 1

Breaking Whitman into Prison

Judith Somberger

Issue 7

Breathing in the Dark

Seth Jani

Issue 3

Brief Thread

Sri Lal

Issue 8

Brighting

Vivian Wagner

Issue 1

Camping in the Redwoods

Joanne Durham

Issue 4

Canary, Plum

Jennifer Markell

Issue 2

Capital Punishment

Myles McCollum

Issue 2

Casida del Llanto

Wally Swist

Issue 8

Celtic Cross

Leslie Ryan

Issue 5

Cemetery Songs

Carol Hamilton

Issue 2

Center Point

Gary Rainford

Issue 2

Cereal

Boo Mangiacotti

Issue 4

Certainty

Edward Supranowicz

Issue 4

Chances

Jeanie Greensfelder

Issue 3

Chicago

Mikayla Beaudrie

Issue 3

Choosing My Afterlife

Robert Cording

Issue 4

Chuang Tzu

Nels Hanson

Issue 6

City Solitude

Huda Khwaja

Issue 4

Claiming or I Too after Langston ?

Sasa Aakil

Issue 8

Cliff Copse

Blake Everitt

Issue 1

Coal Mine Canyon

Brian Volck

Issue 2

Coincidings: A Ghazal

Mahyar Afshar

Issue 5

Come Bask in the Divine Light

Diana Woodcock

Issue 3

Come to the Table

Paul Jaskunas

Issue 5

Come True

Maril Crabtree

Issue 6

Communion

Nadine Ellsworth-Moran

Issue 4

CONCERT

D. Dina Friedman

Issue 5

Conciencia Plena

Juan Ramon Jimenez

Issue 4

Conditions

Ron Welburn

Issue 5

Conference

Sharon Scholl

Issue 3

Consider Gaza

Mary Elliot

Issue 8

Cosmic Lesson

Michael Lyle

Issue 4

Covers

Beth Oast Williams

Issue 3

Credo

Patrick T Reardon

Issue 6

Croissant

Barry Peters

Issue 7

Cruel Destiny

Maisha Tahsin Rubai

Issue 1

Dawn Prayer

Philip Metres

Issue 1

Dead Letter Drop

Pamela Cranston

Issue 4

Denial

Paweł Grajnert

Issue 8

Destiny

Bruce Spang

Issue 2

Devoted

Ginnie Goulet Garvin

Issue 6

Do Not Judge Me For Staying

Vicki Mandell-King

Issue 3

Dollhouse Boyfriend

Nina Rubinstein Alonso

Issue 4

Dramatis Personae

Tzivia Gover

Issue 7

Dream of Immortality

Neal Donahue

Issue 7

Dust to Dust

Karen Luke Jackson

Issue 3

Dwelling

David Ebenbach

Issue 1

East River, After a Long Absence

Prabu Vasan

Issue 5

Easter in Our Palms

Jeannette Tien-Wei Law

Issue 6

eat slowly she said

Bruce Baker

Issue 8

Echoing Damocles

Leslie Schultz

Issue 6

Edges

Martin Willitts Jr.

Issue 1

Emblems of the Times

Jeff Gundy

Issue 1

Emptiness

Jeffrey Essmann

Issue 3

Enough is Enough

Matthew J. Andrews

Issue 1

Entrance

Donald Mace Williams

Issue 8

Env. Stud.

Freesia McKee

Issue 8

Epiphany and the Heart

Barry Casey

Issue 6

Equanimity

Patrice Pinette

Issue 7

Erica, O Erica

Akua Lezli Hope

Issue 2

Eternal

Guna Moran

Issue 1

Evening Poem

Julie Paschold

Issue 4

Event Horizon

Renuka Raghavan

Issue 2

Extra

Marjorie Maddox

Issue 1

Exulansis

Marina Carreira

Issue 7

Fabled Buddhas

Ania Ektate

Issue 6

Fables for Aesop

Richard Brenneman

Issue 2

Faith

Yehoshua November

Issue 1

Father, God

Zachary Forrest y Salazar

Issue 7

Feast of Our Lady of the Assumption, Green Harbor Beach

Ann Neelon

Issue 3

February Prayer

Philip Metres

Issue 1

Finding Mom

Lisa Hase-Jackson

Issue 3

Finding My Melody in the Midst of a Dissonant World

Nancy Machlis Rechtman

Issue 8

Finding Ourselves Rooted

Lisa Lundeen

Issue 3

Fireflies

Kiri Manookin

Issue 1

First Breaths

Shelby Stephenson

Issue 1

Fishing with My Father

Donna Baier Stein

Issue 1

For a Young Friend Giving Birth

Carol Alexander

Issue 5

For Bahia, Bay of all Saints

Deborah Leipziger

Issue 6

For better, for worse

Banqobile Virginia Dakamela

Issue 1

For Graduating Student Activists

Huda Khwaja

Issue 2

For Those Who Pray

Devon Miller-Duggan

Issue 6

Forked

Judy McAmis

Issue 7

FRANKENSTEINA

Tom Donlon

Issue 4

Fresh Grass

Celia Barbieri

Issue 7

From Now On

Rebecca Spears

Issue 7

From THIS BROKEN SYMMETRY

Daniel Tobin

Issue 7

Frontiers & Truth

Marcia Arrieta

Issue 2

Full Moon At Easter

Charlene Langfur

Issue 5

Future Unknowable

Michael Rogner

Issue 7

George’s Blackberry Eyes

Phil Flott

Issue 1

Ghar El Melh

Julio Martínez Mesanza

Issue 1

ghazal for us all

Georgia Riordan

Issue 8

Gino

Siraju Jalloh

Issue 1

God is an Atheist

Elizabeth Sharber

Issue 2

Going to Prison Tuesday Nights

Tom Laughlin

Issue 6

Good Buddhism

Wally Swist

Issue 7

Graceful

Vivian Wagner

Issue 1

Gratitude Works: A Post Pandemic Poem

Matilda Rose Cantwell

Issue 5

Green Thumb

Emily Uduwana

Issue 1

Grief, Displaced

Allissa Cherry

Issue 8

Haiku

Dwight Wilson

Issue 1

Harry Potter and the Need for Myth

Wayne-Daniel Berard

Issue 7

Heart of wood

Susan Evans

Issue 4

heartbreak

Laila Halaby

Issue 6

Heavenly Garden

Emily Updegraff

Issue 4

Heavenly Rain

Shelby Stephenson

Issue 1

Herod the King

V.P Loggins

Issue 7

Higher than the Hills

Luke Armstrong

Issue 4

Holy War

Beatrice Kujichagulia Greene

Issue 4

Home/world

Catherine Kyle

Issue 2

Homecoming

Marc Harshman

Issue 6

Hye Won Hye

Ashante J. Ford

Issue 1

i always…

Carlos Carrio

Issue 1

I am from

Julie Dickson

Issue 4

I am looking for a God

Angelita Hampton

Issue 3

I Gave A Gift

Jesse Ellsbury

Issue 2

I Hear You

Andrew Rice

Issue 4

I Used to Live for Words

Nida Elley

Issue 3

I WANT TO MEET YOU AGAIN, THERE WHERE YOU ARE

Alison Davis

Issue 8

I Wish I’d Held My Father’s Hand

Charles Coe

Issue 6

I WOULD DO IT ALL AGAIN

Diana Woodcock

Issue 7

I’m a Waif in my Homeland

Adewuyi Ayodeji

Issue 3

I’m ebony black

Banqobile Virginia Dakamela

Issue 1

If I Were a Blade of Grass

Leslie Smith Townsend

Issue 1

Imperfect Contrition

Brian Volck

Issue 2

In Andalucía, an Apologia

Frank Coons

Issue 1

In My Dreams I Call

Tatiana Retivov

Issue 4

IN THE BEGINNING

Krikor Der Hohannesiann

Issue 1

In the Present State of Witness 

William Doreski

Issue 2

In this house we don’t say I love you

Tharani Balachandran

Issue 7

Infertility As

Remi Recchia

Issue 4