Richard Jay Shelton: poems

April 2011 | back-issues, poetry | 0 comments

Standing Upon The Sands I cast my sinker Deep into depths Fishing for instructive humanity, Fishing in a sea Of sweat and abuse, I spend my leisure hours, Suffering, As we all suffer together. Never Reached 1 Seems in moments clearly sighted, Far from damnable pride, Seems I wished away my life Wistful wishes…

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Issue 106, Apr 2023

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Featuring: Issue 106, published April 2023, features works of poetry, flash fiction, short nonfiction, and photography by Elizabeth Curley, Johanna DeMay, Alan Elyshevitz, J.V. Foerster, Lena N. Gemmer, Kimberly Goode, Ken Haas, John Robert Harvey, Gloria Heffernan, Ken Hines, Richard Holinger, Kate Hopper, Jennifer Randall Hotz, Michael Hower, DB Jonas, Eun Seo Kim, Cyn Kitchen, Mary Dean Lee, Paul Macomber, Victoria Melekian, Jahin Claire Oh, Hari B Parisi, Min Sung Park, Julia Poole, Paul Rabinowitz, Caroline Reddy, Lisa Rigge, Jim Ross, Yujin Suh, Ron Theel, Cristina Trapani-Scott, and Joan M. White.