August 2026 Issue

Poetry by Meredith Escudier The first one, not purple but pinknot yet luscious, but lovely the promise of sweet abundanceof… Read more: The First Raspberry

Poetry by Nancy Kay Peterson Late August hint of fall hides inthe pulsing breeze, scented dusty green.Each time the wind… Read more: Contentment

Poetry by Peter A. Witt In Illinois, the land opens wideas a held breath, cornfields shimmerin the August heat, soybeans… Read more: What my wife remembers about the land

Nonfiction by Randi Schalet I slip a container of Fage yogurt into my canvas bag and wait, braced for the… Read more: Shoplifting At Whole Foods

Poetry by Elizabeth Starck I’m just a little alarmed by you in your grey dress.You – a menacing moth on… Read more: Old Mother Shipton

Poetry by Marianne Lonsdale I don’t tell youThat I think about the logisticsMore than I think about missing youInstead I… Read more: What I Don’t Tell You

Poetry by Gene Hyde We hover like an orange and white cloud,sampling the floral smorgasbord at the resort.I’m watching this… Read more: A Passion Butterfly Embodies the Muse at Folly Beach

Poetry by Jeff Burt The camp children have taken to the hillsidelike sheep, grazing in all directions. My wife hears… Read more: Camping Mid-day

Poetry by Lana Hechtman Ayers Today there has been so much talk of romance,so much so, that I want to… Read more: Can Love Be a Sofa with a Sprung Spring?

Poetry by Benjamin Green Like the sleep of a birdon its roost, tossingin the heat of sunlight,the old man lets… Read more: Redemption

Poetry by Sarah Das Gupta Hidden in the shadow hereThe foxgloves stand tall and proudYet they are plants to fear… Read more: Poisonous Beauty – a villanelle

Poetry by Emily Persichetti Schuster I saw you todayWith my first breath of canyon airYou were there Meandering down the… Read more: As a Hummingbird