While You Were Gone

January 2013 | back-issues, poetry | 9 comments

While you were goneWe talkedWe touchedWe slid meltingIce cubes overSweat slick thighsWhile you were goneWe danced barefootTo the little radioIn the kitchenNakedAte chocolate chipCookies and lickedCrumbs off our facesTogetherWhile you were goneWe laughedSoftly and hardAs the light fellWe sat face toFace and fingeredEyelashesUntilWith an unwarning whirYou returnedIn blaze of light andBlaring voiceAnd caught usIn reimpoweredSixty…

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Issue 105, Jan 2023

Burrdowning Press

54 pages, perfect bound

Print + eBook: $15.00

Featuring: Issue 105, published January 2023, features works of poetry, flash fiction, short nonfiction, and photography by L. Ward Abel, Evan Anders, Nancy Connors, Diana Dinverno, Melissa Goodnight, Carol Hamilton, Ditta Baron Hoeber, Tess Kelly, Robert Knox , Bernard Knudsen, Kathy Kremins, Clare Marsh, Mary McGinnis, Dawn Miller, Michelle Morouse, Larena Nellies-Ortiz, Lorrie Ness, Robert Nisbet, John Perrault, Patrick T. Reardon, Lisa Rua-Ware, Michael Salcman, Rich Spang, Joshua St. Claire, Eugene Stevenson, Pamela Wax, Ann Weil, and Evan Morgan Williams.