And when no one is looking
I will spin my Ferris-wheel-body
into a patch of late autumn leaves,
pretend I am a kaleidoscope
in what I can only describe
as a soul walk,
my neurons navigating
how ...
Cartwheel by January Gill O’Neil
LAR Online, Poetry
Bergamo
Italy - 18th March 2020
How lonely sits the city once
so full of people. The princess,
now turned slave, is endlessly weeping.
The doors are shut, the windows stand ajar;
somewhere a radio's playing ...
Poems by Immanuel Mifsud Translated by Ruth Ward
LAR Online, Translations
My Hollywood
By Boris Dralyuk
Paul Dry Books, $16.95
The Unrecovered River
Review By David Mason
The vast metropolitan area we call “Los Angeles” is really many cities, each with its own character, ...
My Hollywood by Boris Dralyuk Review by David Mason
Book Reviews, LAR Online
Just ten days old, he should still be swaddled
in the amniotic waters of my womb.
Today is our first time to hold and be held.
While the nurse unbundles him from his cocoon,
he wiggles and yawns as ...
Kangaroo Care by Amy Fleury
LAR Online, Poetry
The day I was expected at Missy Cadwell’s, a woman across town left her screen door open and got mauled to death in her own living room.
Domesticated, Missy always said about the bears, overly domesticated.
I ...
To Stop the Head from Running Wild by Kieran Mundy
Fiction, LAR Online
The poet hovered like Christ on a raging sea. The applause thanked him for his honest timbre, his story and blood.
A trail of tears began gathering underneath the claps somewhere in the balcony, on the far ...
The Ovation by Morgan Mann Willis
LAR Online, Nonfiction
Paul van Ostaijen: Village, 1928
.......................a version
In the night, a bat
your breath
doesn’t depend on the breath of another
and you know this place
the people, house to house, at ...
A poem by Paul van Ostaijen translated by Joshua Weiner
LAR Online, Translations
An Alpine Lake Under a Birdless Sky
.............................You’re tired of summer.
.............................You want to stop all the singing.
.............................And everything is ...
2 Poems by Jordan Escobar
LAR Online, Poetry
The sun is red today, and I don’t know what to say to you. I am staring at this red sun cutting through the smudged clouds, buckling under the decision to say everything or nothing. I imagine you at the kitchen sink, ...
A Crack in the Woods by Sarah Brokamp
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
