Poetry

"...I think night is the right time..."

"...Never letting time sleep beneath my soul..."

"...accusations and arrests for exposing the corrupt and greedy..."

"...I awoke with the word DEATH rushing towards my eyes..."

"...which kind of nervousness to invite..."

"...And they approved my way..."

"...Sleeping on a pile of newspapers on a footpath of Kolkata..."

"...then the bang of the barn door..."

"Behind the glamour..."

"...that first time I got the better of my bully..."

"...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.