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I remember times

When love and sex went hand-in-hand

When love and sax played counterpoint

When sax and sex blew crazy hot

I remember times

When Lady Jazz reached in my chest

And squeezed til joyous music played

Squeezed til music filled the void

I remember too

When love and hate both clashed and fought

When discord spun unwanted webs

The clash and crash of broken souls

Yet still all roads lead back to you

- by Bryn Fortey

First Night

It’s cold in here.

Is there a party outside?

I wonder what my sister’s doing?

It’s my first night.

My head is shaved and

I’m wearing orange overalls.

It’s dark.

Cold.

No sound.  

-by Gary Cummiskey

Photo Courtesy: David Balilty

Header Lines: Adrian Manning

Cartoon Art: Sub and Nil

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David Balilty is an Israeli artist with North African roots. He was born in Jerusalem in 1971 to a family of artists and musicians. In his most recent work, David has combined three mediums of  visual artistic experience for his abstract painting.

'Merry-Go-Round', Bryn Fortey's mixed fiction and poetry collection, was published by The Alchemy Press in 2014. His work has appeared in a variety of print and online sources over the years.

Adrian Manning writes from Leicester, England. He is also editor of Concrete Meat Press. He can be reached at www.concretemeatpress.co.uk.

Gary Cummiskey lives in Johannesburg. He is a poet, writer and publisher. He has had several chapbooks of poetry published over the past 20 years. His short fiction collection Off-ramp has been nominated for the Nadine Gordimer Short Story Award 2014.

Subhankar das is a poet, bookstore owner, and publisher of Bangla experimental materials. He produced six short films that have been honored at international film festivals, and has translated the works of Allen Ginsberg and Charles Bukowski in Bengali.

Nilimesh Dutta lives in Kolkata. He writes very seldom, and writes in Bengali alternative little magazines.

Cinquain

missed you

as I sat there
looking out at the rain
washing away yesterdays dreams
now gone

-by  Adrian Manning

Adrian Manning writes from Leicester, England. He is also editor of Concrete Meat Press. He can be reached at www.concretemeatpress.co.uk.

Painting Courtesy: Tina Vasyanina 

Tina Vasyanina  was born in 1973 in Artyom, Primorsky Krai. She graduated from the School of Arts in Magadan and Irkutsk State Technical University specializing in "monumental and decorative art." She is member of the Creative Union of Artists of Russia. Her painiting contains contemporary trends and tendencies, as well as the author's paintings, mosaics, tapestries and stained glass, applique fabric, installations, art objects. She has participated in  exhibitions around the globe. Her works can be found in galleries and private collections.