Dancing lights across the dark morning sky like little girls twirling in green and yellow skirts giggling happily. Laura Dennis lives in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. She has been published in the anthology Home and Away from House of Blue Skies. She also a self-published chapbook entitled Wheels on the Bus. http://www.publishyourself.ca/ldennis.html 2 Comments A life told straight is a fearsome thing, a needle compassed, magnet-charged to sudden borders, shadow-plagued, its footprints filling with snow, its mapless birds darting, dancing, gone. Lori Powell teaches ESL to children and adults in the Washington, DC area but is plotting to live elsewhere, preferably someplace with sea breezes. She is the author of one chapbook, Truth and Lies, published by Black Buzzard Press, and has published poems in a variety of journals. When the sky spits on my crown, this guy laughs, says whoever deemed life is given. The racetrack we watch launches killer ants and I cannot bear violence If you sleep through one more turn, I might wake to scream against the broken window. Help is on its way in the form of one giant cock who, as weathervane, points true north. Robert’s fiction and poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in: Short, Fast & Deadly, 50 to 1, Heavy Bear, Girls with Insurance, and Tryst. He is a fiction editor at jmww magazine and a flash fiction editor at Thunderclap! Press. His blog is at http://rgv7735.wordpress.com. The moon above Baghdad floats lazily atop a veil of smoky-grey clouds. Pigeons sitting on the streetlamps blend in effortlessly, shaking another day of black dust from their feathers. They have no desire to fly in any direction or converse with a stoic moon. Natives to the dirty sand, both have seen the color of death, both wish they were colorblind. Sandy Sue Benitez's poetry has been published in over 100 print and online journals. Her poems have recently appeared in Hanging Moss Journal, Poem2Day, and Victorian Violet Press. | Poetry
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