INSIDE THIS ISSUE:
Lana Bella
Deji W. Adesoye
Chris Lord
Ali Znaidi
Francis Annagu
Olajide Vincent Ajise
Lyn Lifshin
Akor Emmanuel
Duane Locke
Running Cub
Paul B. Roth
Fahredin Shehu
Laszlo Slomovits
Silvia Scheibli
Michelle Bailat-Jones
Amit Parmessur
Irsa Ruci
Elisavietta Ritchie
Alex Ferde
Richard Gartee
Robert Nisbet
Alan Britt
Changming Yuan
Nahshon Cook
Peycho Kanev
Jennifer Burd
Fred Wolven
Karyn M. Bruce
Ann Arbor Review
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Francis Ferde
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--editor / Southeastern Florida
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TRANSCENDENCE
after the lungs
have breathed
their last breath
and the heart
has stopped
there’s an energy
that won’t allow
the body to slack
until its aura
has left the room
for my grandpa
it took two hours
that’s what writing
is like for me
by the time
I finish a poem
being alive
makes sense
VISITING KIM IN HOSPICE
she’s in this room
with three tan walls
and a big window
and a twin sized bed
where she lay
with limp head
and blue-socked feet
sticking from under the covers
there’s not fat on her
patiently dying face
with its dark bulging eyes
and pulled back wrinkly lips
and the big black
cavity growing
in the chipped off tip
of her top left front tooth
she looks tired
and shrunken
and frail and
so very beautiful
before I get up to leave
I tell her I love you pretty lady
she blows me a kiss then says
I love you too friend
Nahshon Cook, Bankok, Thailand