Conversant

July 2013 | back-issues, poetry | 1 comment

Two nights after the breakupDrunkI dial your number wrongSuddenly, through fate and pulsesTwitches through airI am connected to a stranger, youMinus one number, or maybe twoTransverse.Your name sloshes around, lulls out of my mouthHalf-cockedLoose on my misshapen tongueEven after hearing an older woman answerI carry on talking to you.She doesn’t hang up, doesn’t break our…

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Print & Digital Issues

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.