Jack Gilbert Keeps Lilacs Alive in his Head by Deborah Doolittle   The lilacs hid the remains of a porch it used to screen. The hints of joints and steps leading up and between. Stone remnants of a […]

When the Spring Winds are Strong, Wolf Spiders Balloon by Gary D. Grossman   They’re up on the branch tips, all eight legs en pointe— one hundred and four chitinous arachnids, their tutus matching leafless twigs. Thes […]

Maxed Out by Jason Montgomery This year my credit card company sent me a birthday card. In simple red, white and blue it wished me a happy birthday from Credit One. It is nice […]

Water, Water, Everywhere: Lessons of Water by Fred Wilbur   “If the misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.” —Charles Darwin, Voyage of the Beagle […]

The red onion by Deborrah Corr Deborrah Corr has earned an Honorable Mention in Streetlight’s 2024 Poetry Contest The red onion is a purple globe. I hold it, let my skin adore […]

Plop by Mary Walsh Plop A Rorschach inkblot appears on the cement before me. I veer to avoid the disgusting mess. Weirdly white for a germ filled poop, I fail to […]

Mentor by Jeanne Julian for Alfred Kern,1924-2009                 Search Amazon for his novel,               The Width of Waters, and you get                No Image […]

Little Napalm Girl by Jean Mikhail On the black and white TV, we watched silently, as an American soldier fell into a field of static like he was falling fast asleep, tumbling down […]

What Horses Say and Stains, 2 poems by Rita Quillen What Horses Say What’s to be made of the field of buttercups, a saffron sea at the bend of the road, with the three h […]

The Dying Art of Silence? by Fred Wilbur   If ‘silence is golden,’ why do we squander it so foolishly? If you try finding ‘peace and quiet’ in contemporary life, you will be gob-smac […]

Trails by Will Hemmer We walked down this dusty canyon, where the rains have worn gashes in the gray banks like the creases that run from your cheek bones to your jaw […]

My Sister's Breakfast by Jonathon Chibuike Ukah Jonathon Chibuike Uka is the 2nd place winner of Streetlight’s 2024 Poetry Contest My Sister’s Breakfast The things my sister eats for […]

The Land Where Horses Grow Tired of Running, Hadeel's Story by Olivia Lee Stogner Olivia Lee Stogner is the 1st place winner of Streetlight’s 2024 Poetry Contest Where Horses Grow Tired of Running, Hadeel’s Story Today I went to […]

Mandarinas by Linda Laino The night was so quiet I could almost hear the stars, that place laden with pines. Your eyes hard to read across the air between us, air you […]

In The River of Poetry: Contest Winners Frankly, readers, Sharon and I were flabbergasted and at the same time gratified that Streetlight Magazine received one-hundred and nine entries to […]

Where to Begin Again by Claire Scott I have discarded the gods like leftover tuna sandwiches stacks of them stuffed in the recycling including Odin, Shiva, Baal, Sango and […]

Flipping the Switch in Georgia by Gary D. Grossman Did the G-d of the South finally begin perspiring and give that little knob a flick, mid-September or if lucky, August 22nd? Now the wind is an […]

Portrait of My Father the Photographer as a Dying Man by Bobby Parrott Does her dimpled-cheek delirium still thrill          you? Or her death escalate as you try to focus, cataracts pixilating her image, static o […]

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 […]