Poetry

"...Just another thing to repair with whiskey..."

"...It was once my favorite...."

"...The so called city of gold..."

"Bu helps chaps manage their chronic illnesses..."

"...I know a pair of each was there when start was pressed..."

Richard D. Houff was the former editor of Heeltap Magazine and Pariah Press Books, from 1986 until 2010.

Catherine Arra is the author of "Deer Love," "Her Landscape, Poems Based on the Life of Mileva Maric Einstein," "(Women in Parentheses)," "Writing in the Ether," and three chapbooks. Arra is a native of the Hudson Valley in upstate New York, where she teaches part-time and facilitates local writing groups.

"...I rid myself of the noise that clutters the brain..."

"...this rabbit hole world..."

"...Rolling rivers disappear and Turn into infertile deserts..."

"...What's wrong will never now be right..."

"...Words can reach a fever pitch in a brain!..."

"...It isn't as if they weren't warned..."

"...beaten once, For getting my family Two buckets of water...

"we cosmonauts are on sacred ground..."

"...Reconnecting rhythms In living and dead..."

"...There are scorpions between the sheets..."

"...My wife stopped me -- listen she said..."

"...voracious in their appetite for sameness..."

"...They grow, grind and winnow crops..."

Daniel J. Flore III's writings have appeared in many publications. He is the author of 4 books of poetry, all available on Amazon from GenZ Publishing.

"...Don't worry how this turns out..."

"...it's sadness alive in the lack of footprints..."

"...Proving the weathermen wrong..."

"...an army outside your windows..."

"...What did you protect me from and had you been so kind why did you have to leave?"

"...She knows the importance of food production..."

Hugh Blanton combs poems out of his hair during those moments he can steal away from his employer's loading dock. He has appeared in The American Journal of Poetry, The Rye Whiskey Review, and other places. He lives in San Diego, California.

"...this mother of all mothers -- the Columbia..."

"...Blind and deaf to the myth called age..."