by Allyson Dempsey
“I built / a boy / from clay. / Breathed life / into his body.”
Category: Poetry
The Poet’s Bedroom Reimagined
by Daniel Dyal
“Forget cleansing / my room. Burn down the whole / house.”
Icarus Falling
by Christine Scronce
“Some people say Icarus drowned because he was foolish. / Others because he loved the sun.”
if one must die it will be me tonight
by Marcus Huffman
“the very nights that make a grown man shake; / i cannot stand these lonely, freezing nights.”
We Trade Sips
by Ben Long. Second place in The Vandalia’s 2022 Art & Literature contest
Crows
by Doug Van Gundy
“darker / than the startling plunge into night before the evening / has even gotten going, darker than even the morning cinders / of last night’s fire…”
Distance
by Renard Matthews. Third place in The Vandalia’s 2022 Art & Literature contest
i lie awake, sleeping
by Brennon Weese. First place in The Vandalia’s 2022 Art & Literature contest
The Great Exalted Orange One by Professor Mark DeFoe
“Bozo the Clown and Alfred E. Newman, / a preening buffoon, he hides in his hairdo.”
Introductions by Jessica Mongold
“Telling people what I do for a living / Is volunteering to feel a lump in my throat.”
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