Monosyllabic by J. R. Solonche The best ones are the small ones, those you need to hold in your hand two or three at a time, those you need to feel for size, and shape, and […]

Punding by Eric Forsbergh It’s working all of us, and all the time. Not just as obvious obsessions with diagnostic names, the car-horn ones you notice corralling s […]

Handout by Michael T. Young A day of forgetting has its price, but a price that can’t be reckoned, because the receipt itself was shoved into a pocket, soaked in the l […]

Atheist and Not Now, Maybe Not Ever, 2 poems by Claire Rubin Scott Atheist At seven I stopped believing in Santa after Mary Lou whispered to me betrayed by adults lured into an unreal world I stopped believing […]

and yet the moon by Nimisha Mondal your father is dying on the other side of the world and yet, the moon shines into our bedroom my mother has broken her ankle and can’t walk […]

Writing History's Happenstance by Fred Wilbur During my older sister’s annual visit last fall, three shoe boxes came into the house with her luggage. After the usual greetings and settling i […]

The Owl by Deborrah Corr From the branch above, half concealed in new oak leaves, silent, the barred owl watches with giant eyes, round as the pool at my feet. Its […]

Parma, Idaho by Craig Brandis                                 Mounds of sugar beets under                          halogen, marooned in pressure                    […]

Evolution of a History by Fred Wilbur Unlike my previous writing efforts, I am presently engaged in compiling a history of the local garden club (of all things!) The subject is not one […]

Some Trepidation by Fred Wilbur I am scheduled for a tri-annual colonoscopy soon and like most people, I buy into the statistics of cancer prevention, though it is not an event […]

Arson by Matt Dhillon Matt Dhillon is the 3rd place winner of Streetlight’s 2022 Poetry Contest Arson Blistering heat, mother of me. A little gasoline makes the […]

The Sink by Eric Odynocki Eric Odynocki is the 2nd place winner of Streetlight’s 2022 Poetry Contest The Sink glints like a boneyard, white plates peeking over the rim […]

Appeasement by John Cullen John Cullen is the 1st place winner of Streetlight’s 2022 Poetry Contest Appeasement Three hundred pounds of pasture mix in the […]

Time Traveling by Bill Glose   Driving switchbacks on Shenandoah’s spine, dipping into valleys and screaming up again, we scorch speed warnings from yellow di […]

A Gull and The Black Birch, 2 poems by J. R. Solonche A Gull A gull so far from the river circles the parking lot. Its whiteness is lost in this late fall day’s brightness. Its black edges are lost […]

Between the two American holidays of Thanksgiving and Christmas, it seems appropriate to write about one aspect of both: food.

Traditionally the first Thanksgiving was a celebration of a successful, […]

a lot of roadkill lately.
one sign of summer’s
approach. dead foxes—
dead birds especially.
and once, on the main road
driving toward blessington,
an otter—an almost
intact thing, a torso
as thick […]

The sky streams by overhead, a blue tapestry
dappled with puffs of white, each cloud haloed

by the sun’s mild gold. The day is at its half-
way point. Soon, the sky will lose its hold on gold,

the b […]

the fancy radio my wife gifted
into my simple pickup
has finally died

despite all manner of punching and twirling,
little instrument won’t rouse,
nor even static startle, and
the bright digital time s […]

I gave up early:
and went to a houseboat
to mourn:

both named a beer
and splashed next
to woes about your love
in a bunk of redwood
done messy by stinkbugs.

your ad […]