Last Words: Mysteries of Life by Richard Weaver for Nana Pansy “Give these to Weaver,” you said. The books that saw you through sleeplessness. “I’m done with reading.” You already k […]

To Solve America by Fred Wilbur                                                          I got to have it (just a little bit)                                                  […]

Apology for Ralph's Mule by Joyce Compton Brown  Joyce Compton Brown is the 3rd place winner of Streetlight’s 2023 Poetry Contest Apology for Ralph’s Mule       …and before them went the mule […]

Considering My Last Carbon Footprint by Patricia Hemminger  Patricia Hemminger is the 2nd place winner of Streetlight’s 2023 Poetry Contest Considering My Last Carbon Footprint New York Governor L […]

Digging by Linda Parsons Linda Parsons is the 1st place winner of Streetlight’s 2023 Poetry Contest Digging Dirt peppers the sink as I roll palm to palm these golds […]

The Goodness of Contests by Fred Wilbur Life should not be a contest, but it is. This statement seems terribly bleak, “survival of the fittest,” dystopian, shoot-‘em-up violent and down- […]

Samadhi and The Genesee River, 2 poems by Victoria Korth Samadhi By day it hides in the bones, disguising its rich scent with worry and talk. At night it falls lightly, dips fingers in water, crosses […]

say goodbye, without disappearing by B. Luke Wilson your namealways tasteslike a palindrome across my tongue minnowingpond wide words      stained red as pomegranate arilsthe sun dies between us […]

Our Fathers by Fred Wilbur My father died twenty-five years ago when I was fifty; a third of my life ago. He was by most measures a good man, and I grieved as a good son […]

Horses by Joseph Mills I know people who know horses They ride them and own them and talk about their different points. They look at a horse in a field or […]

Wondering What is Forecast by Rebecca Leet I don’t know why I was singled out, being, as I was, simply sitting at my patio table sipping Earl Gray and scanning AccuWeather for a hint o […]

Cole Shows Set-up by Molly O’Dell late afternoon      on the day before openingcarnival workers prepare their week’s work for the 69th annual Buchanan carnivalRV’s and duallys […]

It is Coming to Get Us by Fred Wilbur Several months ago, a fellow Streetlight editor wrote a Street Talk blog about her frustration with pestering and inappropriate advertising […]

Moonburst and Shortcuts, 2 poems by J. R. Solonche MOONBURST It was wan. It was white. It was sickly white. It was filled to full with white. It was white as a sheet. It saw a ghost. It saw […]

The Long Goodbye and Solving for X in a Pandemic, 2 poems by Carlene M. Gadapee The Long Goodbye The dishes undone, the laundry undone, the checkbook balance impossible to follow or read. Then, the falls. So many falls. It […]

Outside Whole Foods by Eliot Wilson We always seem to get the red light here, just close enough to Whole Foods to see in while the bus kneels to unfold the ramp that allows the […]

In Memoriam of Henry G. Shirley by Brannon O'Brennan A sky god laments unintended consequences, observing the artery that injects the city with Virginia. Suburban sanguines resigned to short […]

An Ending by Adam Day                                    after Mark Bibbins Rays burrowing in sand like hearing someone typing an endless suicide note […]

2023 Poetry Contest Winners by Fred Wilbur It is our pleasure to announce the Winners and Honorable Mentions of the annual Streetlight Magazine Poetry Contest. How did we arrive at our […]

Elegy for a Soldier by Will Hemmer In the pulsing heat, in the black cathedral of war, the amber-tinted silver of infra-red illuminates a man. Nimble in the moment between the […]