Issue 14: Chain of Years (Nov-Dec 2017) is an unthemed issue featuring poetry, prose, videos, and artwork from writers and artists around the world.
felled branches
the park
gets a brand new sky
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Lee Nash lives in France and freelances as an editor and proofreader. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in print and online journals including Acorn, Ambit, Angle, Antiphon, Magma, Mezzo Cammin, Orbis, Poetry Salzburg Review, Presence and The World Haiku Review. Her first poetry chapbook, Ash Keys, has just been released from Flutter Press. You can find a selection of Lee’s poems on her website: leenashpoetry.com.
my sister says, last night I dreamt
of poetry
but I was naked
and hiding.
I tell her
this is poetry. she says,
I didn’t realize I was hiding
where I had already been
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Audrey Gidman received her BFA from the University of Maine Farmington. Her work can be found in The Rush, The 2River View, Slippery Elm, and Smeuse, among others. She currently resides in Maine.
My earliest memory was mother holding me over father’s coffin telling me to kiss him. I did, and spent my life looking for dead men to kiss.
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Elizabeth Moura has had stories, poetry and photos published in online and paper publications. She lives in a converted factory and works with elders in a small town.
(Watch Jade Anouka’s video of “My Body Is Mine” on YouTube)
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Jade Anouka is an actor and poet. She has performed her words around London and New York including featured spots with Apples & Snakes, Farrago and the Southbank Centre. Her first collection Eggs On Toast is published though Poetry Space and available to buy at www.AnoukaPoetry.com
she sits
at the port
at low tide,
scarred and
scared and
sacred,
crying under her breath:
rain was meant for dancing.
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Erin Leigh holds a BA degree in English Communication and a master’s in Liberal Studies with a concentration in English, and teaches post-secondary writing, research, and literature courses. Her writing has most recently appeared in *82 Review, Belle Rêve Literary Journal, Right Hand Pointing, and Tower Poetry.
How often
we act out
the play
in our heads
& then polish
the scene
so it can happen
even brighter
in real life
& when it’s dark
& we want fire
for the world
to see us
our naked anger
we end up
setting
the whole county
on fire.
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Darren C. Demaree’s poems have appeared, or are scheduled to appear in numerous magazines/journals, including the Diode, Meridian, New Letters, Diagram, and the Colorado Review. He is the author of six poetry collections, most recently Many Full Hands Applauding Inelegantly (2016, 8th House Publishing) and is the managing editor of the Best of the Net Anthology and Ovenbird Poetry. He currently lives and writes in Columbus, Ohio with his wife and children.
