Lake George in My Heart by David Stern My wife and I sought sanctuary by the lake, our two sons in tow. The four-hour car trip was nonstop requests for candy, cookies, sodas laced with […]

Harvester by Ned Kraft   Once mown a tedder spreads the murdered crop to dry, draws a swath, a windrow waiting. Three days of drought and the hay is fit to […]

A Necessary Addiction by Fred Wilbur Recently, my wife and I attended a dinner gathering of ten academics of which half were retired. We had met all before, though only a few do we […]

Schopenhauer Rues the Rise of Women by Bill Glose “Instead of calling them beautiful there would be more warrant for describing women as the unesthetic sex. Neither for music, nor for poetry, nor f […]

Concrete Staircase by Jeff Thomas Buffalo Alice stuck her pig husband in the throat with a carpet knife. Made the evening news. Hell of a lady if you ask me, but I don’t get jury s […]

Future Tense by Fred Wilbur The New Year has ambled in and made itself at home, decorations are packed away, the refrigerator leftovers are cleaned out, life is out there in the […]

Hand Dancing in a 45 Speed Zone by Richard Allen Taylor There is a hand dangling from the driver’s window of the car ahead, a sight seen less often on hot days like this, when most folks crank up the A […]

The Weight of Words by Fred Wilbur A few years ago, a friend of mine was compelled to downsize as she moved from her cottage and asked if I would relieve her of a large dictionary and […]

At the Buffalo Roundup by Kristin Laurel The buffalo are gone And those who saw the Buffalo are gone~ Carl Sandburg I. The sun rose and spread her long fingers of light onto the […]

tunneling with my friend mole by Susanne S. Rancourt into earth muffled dark with fear that i hold in risen shoulders, sacral plate, pelvis, vertebrae. my earth heart sends a radio signal, a star […]

The Book of Nights by Richard Oyama My father dulled his surmise. He rang the register, count ‘em Greenback and copper upon the eye. Blue black fell on Harlem. He poured the day i […]

Abroad by Brent Short We are pilgrims in the earth and strangers— we come from afar and we are going far. –Vincent van Gogh Abroad for some time now following our f […]

Journal of Absence by Fred Wilbur If you make a quick on-line search about loneliness in America, you may be surprised that between twenty to thirty-three percent of the population […]

Father's Day by Rebecca Faulkner Rebecca Faulkner is the 2nd place winner of Streetlight’s 2025 Poetry Contest Father’s Day Mum says I have a new family now, matter-of-fact with […]

Of All the Qualities She Could Have Inherited by Abby Murray Abby Murray is the 1st place winner of Streetlight’s 2025 Poetry Contest   Of All the Qualities She Could Have Inherited She carries my […]

The Tet Offensive by Debbie Collins They tried to protect us from the TV as it vomited unspeakable news straight from Cronkite, night after night Age six, I snuck looks at the […]

Hope by Carlene M. Gadapee Remember that time you spent five whole dollars on a ticket to win a calf at the fair? What you thought we’d do with a little cow, I have no i […]

Let the Leaves Turn by Fred Wilbur   I possess a book on reading at the beach. How to Read a North Carolina Beach* is one of those few books you need a beach to enjoy fully, one […]

We Need Appointments to See Friends by Gerald Yelle Because we didn’t ask Abraham to do anything we wouldn’t do ourselves. We don’t owe him any explanation. Let him think it’s revenge in advance […]

A Dead Love by Chibuike Ukah My father stared at me like a rose full of lint. He was wondering how living haunted me, spreading through my face and body, how it serenaded me […]