Poetry

"...there was a stranger in the blue sea..."

Where, indeed?

Vicki Iorio is the author of "Poems from the Dirty Couch," Local Gems Press and the chapbooks "Send Me a Letter," dancinggirlpress and "Something Fishy," Finishing Line Press.

Bruce McRae, a Canadian musician, is a multiple Pushcart nominee with over 1,400 poems published internationally in magazines such as Poetry, Rattle and the North American Review.

"...have to be the new modern fractured man..."

"...In the garden outside the sky..."

"...and sweet cricket song..."

"...if no one ever hears them, do the screams even count?"

"...It's hale and hearty for the mind..."

TS Hidalgo's works have been published in magazines in the USA, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Germany, UK, France, Spain, Turkey, Ireland, Portugal, Romania, Nigeria, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, India, Singapore and Australia.

"...sitting upon plastic, lawn chairs..."

"...Burn the candle at both ends and maybe burn a little something extra too..."

"...the choreographed cornered escape..."

"...Dubya had his soulless mocking smirk..."

"...contemplating the jagged edge of an ancient life..."

"...Dishonesty breeds uncertainty..."

Metalhead, Misfit, walking this earth for two decades now. Dedicating my life to turn my mess into a masterpiece, and one way I see fit for it, is writing my heart out. I believe art is not just about reflecting the society, but also about carrying the viewer, reader, or to places unknown, at times an abyss and at times, a mirror.

"...the essence of expression..."

"...Where is the tooth fairy in all of this?..."

"...I shall have the heavy expectations..."

"...Dons goggles and gloves for triple degree overtime..."

"...the writhing, wailing, whining, flesh- aggrieved, chicken carcass..."

"...I never knew I had..."

"...That dehumanizes and destroys decency..."

"...To make writing an almost daily thing..."

Umar Yogiza Jr. is a writer, poet and builder based in Abuja, Nigeria. He is the author of "Instrument of Immortality" and "Singing In A Bonfire."

Ian C Smith's work has appeared in, Amsterdam Quarterly, Australian Poetry Journal, Critical Survey, Live Encounters, Poetry New Zealand, Southerly, & Two-Thirds North. He writes in the Gippsland Lakes area of Victoria, and on Flinders Island, Tasmania.

"...terns hover over crests of rolling waves..."

"...piled high with bacon, hash browns, biscuits and gravy..."

"...you became a legend in real life..."