Moonlight by Ronald Stottlemyer This is the light of stillness after everything has been said and thought, after the day has been brought to its knees once more, after the […]

Heaven Spot by Mark Belair In a dark subway tunnel between stations, a concave safety niche holds a grotto of graffiti unseen unless you happen to glance out when the […]

Cursed by Tess Matukonis For your birth, metal instruments sing you and your fluorescent halo into being. At your baptism you are pressed by the hands of power into […]

Goodbye to Love Atop Old Priest Grade by Mary Pacifico Curtis I have a fondness for our imperfect union that started with a swindle – too much money for land and a set of plans that had hung over the place l […]

The Emily Dickinson Revery Construction Guide by Robert Harlow Before she invented the ladder to the sky, she first invented the sky to have somewhere to go. Then she pulled the ladder up after […]

Of Goats and Men by Sharon Ackerman I step outside right at sunrise when night creatures are still on the move. It’s a threshold hour, a groundhog slogs under the fence or a fawn s […]

Dolphin, with Number by Ty Phelps Ty Phelps has earned an Honorable Mention in Streetlight’s 2023 Poetry Contest Dolphin, with Number The city stretches out beyondthe marshland, […]

Scientists Say it's Time to Prepare for Human Extinction by David B. Prather —article title by Gwyn Wright, via swns.com ……………..             …..Let me make light of the situation, travel to the nearest inter […]

The Driver by John Beck John Beck has earned an Honorable Mention in Streetlight’s 2023 Poetry Contest The Driver In 1925, Pius XI made you, St. Frances, the patron of […]

We Left My Father and Sister at Home by Joan Mazza Joan Mazza has earned an Honorable Mention in Streetlight’s 2023 Poetry Contest We Left My Father and Sister at Home Because my mother didn’t d […]

O TANGERINE by Christina Hauck Buying one I thought of my mother, dead three months. How she loved the easy peel, the seediness! Long ago on Christmas morning I discovered A […]

Lent by Sharon Ackerman The word Lent derives from an Old English word meaning ‘lengthen.’ Or more precisely, it comes from the Middle English word lente which means spr […]

We Were Bag People and Lament for my Late Cousin While Feeding the Dog, 2 poems by Marianne Worthington We Were Bag People Life is no knock-off handbag, no purse ordinary as any K-Mart pocketbook. No. Worse. Life is a brown paper bag, plainest […]

Canticle for the Hand and Mouth by Karl Sherlock The way one’s mouth shadows the hand because hands spoke the first language. The way the lurid tongue-tip drapes the sill of one’s lip, mob […]

Some Stories by Claire Scott Some stories last long past their appointed hour, like light from expired stars. Like leftover houseguests or five day fish. We walk toward […]

Old News by Joseph Kleponis It was late afternoon in fall or spring Because we were not wearing heavy coats. The pale sun was just starting to squinch down. As we left the […]

Autumn Landscape by Elizabeth Mercurio How do you bear the middle-aged body, all its longing— ……    a body grown round. It doesn’t curve with the same sweetness it did on days […]

Advent by Sharon Ackerman The Christmas story is full of haves and have-nots, those who are empty and those who are full, those who have shelter and those who lack. As with […]

Bloodroot in March by Gary D. Grossman 1. Regardless of the year, it’s the first flower seen on my daily hikes, pushing through every November’s abandoned duvet of tan and umb […]

a cricket's delight by IIma Quereshi one tree- with its small hands and another with its star-laced fingers brush against the sky the sky that looks like a sea drained of […]