Poetry

"...powerful but also prescient..."

Dr. Piku Chowdhury teaches in a post graduate government-aided college and serves as a research guide, editor, author, painter, translator, singer, poet, photographer, and mental health facilitator.

"...Second degree felony instead of terminal stupidity..."

"... determined to drive me insane then kill me..."

"...3 poets snicker at the idea of death..."

"...living a life outside the norm..."

"...a pail of water thrown at the triad between rounds..."

"...she sang to the gin mill crowd..."

"...warp the altar of natural laws..."

"...he says when convention died innovation resurrected..."

"...the lingering bitterness increases after each bite..."

Richard LeDue currently lives and teaches in Norway House, Manitoba. His poems have appeared in various publications throughout 2020 and 2021, including a chapbook, "The Loneliest Age," released from Kelsay Books.

"...an invisible you joins me in my study..."

"...baubles and trinkets and platinum facelifts..."

"...The spectacle aroused a song within me..."

"...Decrying the bandits and the rogues..."

Welcome to the Piker Press 19th Anniversary Issue. Thank you to all the writers and other artists and readers for making this possible.

"The heroic hostess talked about a dam..."

Robert Paul Allen is the father of four and has a home in the woods in Orland, Maine. He works in the medical field and has seen the gamut of human trials and tribulations which inspires much of his poetry.

Michael Adubato is a New Jersey writer and poet currently living in Belgium.

"...so callous to laugh at the suffering of the sick..."

"...There was a heart somewhere beating within you..."

"...until a thought came to my head..."

"...Trees are already on their knees to greet the breeze...

"...I see a flattening curve..."

"There is greatness in imagination..."

"...the days when it had a caressing fragrance..."

"...Some say it is a mystery, an adventure..."

"...curving solid over the sky..."

"...I need a cigarette that does not exceed 10 centimeters..."