As It Ought To Be

M.J. Arcangelini: “Sunday Mass at St. Coleman’s”

Jason Baldinger: “ode to miles davis he loved him madly”

Sam Barbee: “I Baptize Myself with Deaf Water”

Kendall A. Bell: “tell me how you will remember this summer”

James Benger: “every day’s a new mystery”

Rose Mary Boehm: “A Poem Escapes”

Michael Catherwood: “Vacations”

John Dorsey: “Poem for Wookiee”

Joel Glover: “There’s A Crisis Alright”

Phyllis Klein: “Picture Book of Tears as Birds”

Richard Vargas: “Guapo’s Haibun”

“Funeral Geometry…” By Samuel Prestridge

“Motel Room Without a Nightlight” By Laurel Benjamin

“Tears” By Geraldine Cannon

“The Desert” By Chuck Kramer

“Wardenclyffe” By Susan Cossette

“What We’re Here For” By John Dorsey

“Funeral Arrangements in the Crawlspace” By John Compton

“Malverns” By Michael Hurst

“The Names of Birds” By Paula Reed Nancarrow

“Bird-Banding at Camp” By Gerald Friedman

“A Life in Art” By Paul Ilechko

“Havok” By Richard Stimac

“And Then There Was Death” By Connie Woodring

“The Traitor” By James Duncan

“Shelley” By Andi Horowitz

“Ode to the Serenity Prayer” By Alex Stolis

“From a History of Servitude” By R.T. Castleberry

“Displaced Existence” By LB Sedlacek

“Nick Drake, The Handsome Fox” By Chris Pellizzari

“In A Dream, An Earthquake” By Sam Culotta

“The Way We Know Before We Know” By Karen Paul Holmes

“Floaters” By Dudley Stone

“A Stranger Stands to Say a Few Words” By Daniel Edward Moore

“Loss Prevention Specialists” By Mary Kathryn Jablonski

“Breaking Up, Breaking Apart, Breaking Down” By Devin Brookshire

“Dead Birds” By Tim Peeler

“I Sample the Sea” By Alice Teeter

“Beyond Casper” By Ken Gierke

“Meatsuits” By Rebecca Schumejda

“Dressing Up” By Jason Visconti

“Proverbs” By Larry Smith

“Gone Fishing” By Agnes Vojta

“An Angrier Shade of Blue” By Troy Schoultz

“Skeletons in the Waffle House” By Joe Mills

“Desire” By Richard Stimac

“A Song for Biofilms” By Sue Blaustein

“Lotus Flower” By Rebecca Schumejda

“Early Morning” By Robin Wright

“Concerning the Current Drift of Words” By Geraldine Cannon

“Darkroom” By Agnes Vojta

“Poem for Kacie” By John Dorsey

“Solace” By John Grochalski

“Books” By Royal Rhodes

“After The Drought” By Jason Visconti

“Annas Bay Anglers” By Sterling Warner

“The Recluse of Glendalough” By Ken Hines

“Crow Will Never Carry A Star Across the Sky” By Cheryl A. Rice

“Winter Solstice 2023” By Leslie M. Rupracht

“Goodnight, Saint Peregrine” By Rebecca Schumejda

“April Fools’ Day – In All Good Fun” By Geraldine Cannon

“the last vestige of tiki” By Jason Baldinger

“Waking up in India to the News that Mike is Dead” By Agnes Vojta

“Invisible Ink” By M.J. Arcangelini

“Fishing Both Sides of the River” By Cheryl A. Rice

“Floods and Fires” By James Croal Jackson

“On a Cold Afternoon at the Sit-N-Bull” By John Dorsey

“Running for the Bus in a Rainstorm” By Diana Rosen

“In Memory Of” By Howie Good

“the aforementioned skyline” By Jason Baldinger

“i hear it through the static,” By John Compton

“The Calm Before” By Jason Ryberg

“Taking My Students To See The Mayans And Aztecs But They Talk Me Into Staring At A Bunch Of Dead Things” By Kellie Diodato

“Ruminations of an Airplane Passenger Before the Flight Turned Around & Returned to its Departure Airport” By G.M.H. Thompson

“Getting a Haircut from the Only Woman in Monroe County, Mississippi, Who Was Willing to Go to Funeral Homes in the Middle of the Night and Style the Hair of Corpses” By Samuel Prestridge