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Cover
Table of Contents
Editor's Notes
Donations
Submission
Guidelines
Website
Stories
& Essays
Balance
_ By
Alison Baumy
Contemporary
Cultural Differences...
_ By
Ninni Siurua
Eclipsed
Yesterdays
_ By
Clyde Windjammer
Healthy Guy
_ By
David J. LeMaster
Immortalis Letum
_ By
Sophie Davis
Last Call For Salvation
_ By
Angela P. Markham
My Fault
_ By
Ro Thorton
Pacific Northwest
_ By
Aaron Hellem
Q-Q Ca Choo
_ By
Billy Pilgrim
The Best Laid Plans
_ By
John A. Ward
The Ecstasy of Cooking
_ By
Sam Nolting
The Girl With the Green Umbrella
_ By
J.R. Earlebeck
The Gods of Houston
_ By
Rebekah Frumkin
Poetry
Athena's Owl
_ By
Amberly Mason
But I Have Never Known This
_ By
Kaleen Love
Clouds On Your Floor
_ By
Savannah Bobo
Crowded Lobby
_ By
M. Blair Spiva
Ever After
_ By
Bennie Johnson
Important Questions
_ By
P.T. Bell
Migration
_ By
Sarah Wassberg
Moon Goddess
_ By
Kristina Diane Smith
Oldest Profession
_ By
Ashley Polker
On Visiting Hay-on-Wye
_ By
M. Blair Spiva
Sodom and Gomorrah
_ By
Jessica Fannin
Wal-Mart
_ By
P.T. Bell
Art
& Photography
Jeremy Harker
_ Paintings
Douglas C. Knight
_ Photography
Jed Knox
_ Paintings
and Drawings
May Ann Licudine
_ Paintings
Danny
Malboeuf
_ Paintings
Alex
Stanbury
_ Photography
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Crowded
Lobby
By
M. Blair Spiva
"I think I could love you" I heard you say,
your voice a breathless whisper -
an echo of light colliding with night.
A reflection in glass, hazy swirls of smoke
and beyond a crowded room,
your eyes meeting mine.
Will this be it then?
This, all we allow to exist?
Let your answer be spoken
in discretion, in some quiet
shadow of want, in the motion
of nimble fingertips...
No answer awaits, your words the only murmur
on a moon-troubled evening.
Your eyes turn away, dissolving,
transparent,
and nothing.
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M. BLAIR SPIVA is a poet living and working in Athens, Georgia. Her poetry has appeared in
Plum Biscuit, The Lampshade, The Corn Creek
Review, and The Argotist Online. Her work is also forthcoming in
Lalitamba Magazine, Misanthropists Anonymous, The
Landing, and DISPATCH Literary Journal, where she also serves as poetry editor. Blair lives with her husband, Michael, and their two dogs, Annabel Lee and Percy. |
