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Poetry

July/Aug 2021

I Love My Brother

By Alessandra Lynch

1 The tree is a feather. I believe everything you declare. The cat kissed a star he’d caught in his paw. Loneliness in a leg at rest or hurrying through […]

Poetry

July/Aug 2021

Charcoal Gray the Shadows

By Alessandra Lynch

Charcoal gray the shadows, sometimes the blue of gathered dust. I ran through a blur of them, soundlessly they’d fallen around the others: branch-shadows, telephone wire-shadows, sleety-shadows church-shadow and the […]

Nature’s Nature

May/June 2019

Ire

By Alessandra Lynch

It’s got to be somewhere your anger and like the moon though very far away still leaves an impression, is apt to hover by the bedroom window a child stares […]

Nature’s Nature

May/June 2019

Forest

By Alessandra Lynch

O, once-child, can we find the heart in brush black as this, too wet for a fire? You aspired to air, child, but your bones were cumbersome. And where is […]

Poetry

Nov/Dec 2018

Meditation on Rain

By Alessandra Lynch

In a blue collusion of dusk and rain, the sky’s darkly shaking like horsetails flicking      off bloodflies. As you’d try switching off half-truths that fed on your skin, their little […]