Announcing the winner of our Eco-Poetry Contest
"To the Survivors" - Peter Manos
a bath rug is painted with a body turning
on itself, this cave of wonders emptying the cells
I’ve tried to hold in. what is muscle memory when
everything merges into red and red on a bathroom
floor where I scrub the tile with a fine-toothed comb
until the color bleeds through.
Applause
Donna Pucciani
Today all things are possible.
Berries become birds.
Daylilies become nighthawks.
Skunks become roses, roses lions.
Pre-Employment Personality Assessment
Suzy Eynon
Select any words that
you feel
describe the way you are supposed to act:
◻ Patient
◻ Responsive
◻ Social
In your late teens, you work the register at a big-box pet store for a month. Someone checking out with an urgent, angry desire for lizard food tells you to hurry up.
Opossums
John Popielaski
They are born in a brush pile before the spring’s full bloom.
Their embryonic digits grasp. They pull
each blind and hairless fraction of a gram, each portion
of audacity, across the mother to the pouch seam.
