


Control Alt Delete
Hedayat Reda
They say that patience is a virtue.
If so, then wasn’t Sisyphus
the most patient of us all?

Nostalgia of an Incomplete Christmas
Okolo Chinua
“I'm writing this piece about nostalgia, wondering what it would be like, a Christmas without Mama.”

Home Voyáge
Ruth Manino
After five decades together, refusing to let a pandemic upend the romance of their golden years.

After Bathing, I Yearn for Smoke
Christel Thompson
A poem about rituals, cleansing, and higher powers.

Still Life
Christopher Linforth
He kept a stiff upper lip, and lower lip, and brow, and gaze…

First Light
Faye Rapoport DesPres
A poem strictly for the birds—and those who tend to their baths.

Tragedy Mash
Haley Jenkins
“If you ever see me eating sweet potato mash out of a saucepan, you know it’s bad news.”
HAPPIER NEW YEAR
C. Adán Cabrera
“let us, at least today, embrace the yet-to-be
while we still pine
for a happier tomorrow.”





Thanksgiving, 2020
Ace Boggess
“I’m grateful you’ve survived this long.
I’ll text you my recipe for air.”


Overheard in a Church Basement on Christmas Eve
Catherine Gigante-Brown
Poem for a man in search of some basic human dignity.