To The Editor Who Asked For A Poem

                                                 © Henry Denander

Haven't you heard?  I moved to Utah and died.

No...no...I don't think I died

Well maybe I did die

I am not sure

Leaving for Arches tomorrow

If you still want poems

In five days

I will send

I will leave your

Face up

To remind me

Or maybe this

Is a poem

If you can tell

Use it

One never knows

Now days

- by Linda King  7/6/15

Linda King, rasied in the wild country of Boulder, Utah.  The last place in USA where mail was delivered on horseback. Author of Loving and Hating Charles Bukowski, a humorous and wild record of women's lib and romance in the 70's. Author of numerous poetry books and a novel Mad Ouija. Lives in St. George, Utah.

Henry Denander was born in 1952 and lives in Stockholm, Sweden. He is an artist and a poet and his latest book “The Accidental Navigator” was published by Lummox Press. 

He has a website with poetry and art at www.henrydenander.com.

pain and mistakes

   

© Rafael González                                                                              © Rafael González

I am recovering from this open surgery

I am recovering from this pain and mistakes

people make even at the cost of a life

to them we are just fucking numbers.

They almost got me by pushing insulin

when i never had a history of diabetics

and I started shouting when I realized.

Soon they stopped and got so angry that

they threw me out of the ICU.

I was lucky not to get into that

insulin-induced coma from which

many people could never return,

hanging midway like Artaud

during his last few months

between living and the dead.

-by Subhankar Das

                                                                                  
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.

Art Courtesy: Rafael González

Rafael González is a visual and sound artist and he hails from Spain.

Beware! Mad Bulls are around.

Cancelmysubscriptions Return my submissions Hold your rejections Forget the directions Ignore my instructions T H I S I S T H E E N D

R O A D S

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.

Karlsson's Korner: Coffee

                              © Janne Karlsson

                           Janne Karlsson is a wildly prolific Swedish illustrator and writer.

Little Sister

     © Arturs Akopjans

Little sister with your face full of lashes and your raspberry lips, you’re growing up too quickly in that house i left. Already you’re reading in my old uniforms, from a decade ago, yes you’re a clever little cookie still some things you should know. you’ll need to use those eyes of yours-- half moons to see when daddys coming after you. Haunt him, tame that wolf. you do not deserve that flavor of affection. laugh innocent, leave him be, reeling in the garden where i spent the night with Jesus and those stars, that moon will be counting you among those precious stones no man can throw, (you’ll know no ceiling).

And please remember me the way i will remember your face full of lashes, cheeks of rosehips. I had to had to save myself, grant me this wish, little sister.

-by Bree

Bree is founder of Green Panda Press (Cleveland, OH) which publishes poetry and art paperbacks, chaps and sundry of the small press. Her work appears in little mags. She is the author of three memoirs.

Painting Courtesy: Arturs Akopjans

Arturs Akopjans, born October 31, 1969 in Armenia is residing and working in Riga, Latvia. In 1996 graduated Arturs Akopjans from "The Latvian Academy of Arts." Since then he has exhibited in the best galleries in the Baltic countries, Germany and Austria as well as group exhibitions in Belgium, Lithuania, Latvia and Denmark. His paintings can be seen in private collections from Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, USA, UK, Norway, Germany, Armenia and Austria.

Street Art in Germany : I

      Happy Rizzi House in Braunschweig, Germany

      Photo Courtesy: Urban Street Art

Karlsson's Korner

     © Janne Karlsson

Janne Karlsson is a wildly prolific Swedish illustrator and writer.