EDITORIAL COMMENT Occasional Notes: Charles H Johnson, Juneteenth 6
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Jay Berman Two More Gentlemen of Verona: The Sequel 6
Murali Kamma The Last Railway Man 22
Charlie Brice The Book of Friedman 31
Chinwe I Ndubuka One Less Regret 44
Dinamarie Isola The Trustee 55
Jason Graff The Golden Inevitable of Early Dawn 62
Jim Kunkel Mile Marker 17 68
Jack King Freefall 75
Laura Maffei Cabinet Jesus 91
Khanh ha The Weaver of Dien Bien Phu 103
Beate Sigriddaughter Not from the Neighbors 118
William Cass Hopeville 122
David Hodgson Late Summer 137
Zoë Gioja Not Contagious Anymore 149
Terry Sanville Squeezing Lemons 159
Susannah Kennedy First Kisses 37
Natalie King Sober 85
Delbert R Gardner Signs to Live By 112
Anita Kestin Place Pigalle 132
Childeric Maxy Just a Man 21
Fabiyas M V The Water Jail 33
Linda Fuchs America’s Health System 35
Fallen Flower 35
MarcelloGibbs “World Peace” (A Traditional Villanelle Poem) 39
Matthew Bruce Antifreeze 40
Tracks 41
Devon Balwit Perfect Catastrophe 55
Carol Anderheggen Rain, Heavy at Times 60
In Dingle Town 61
Gene Twaronite Social Distance 68
Sharon Ruetenik Love’s Fallacies 74
Marjorie Power After the Last Performance 84
Poem with Short White Hair 84
Gunilla Norris May Day 89
The Nest 90
On the Newel Post 91
Arthur Ginsberg I Can’t Breathe 100
Down the Road 101
Look! 102
Bruce McRae In August 111
Darkest Before Dawn 112
Joyce Meyers Adapting 114
Lockdown 115
Chris Biles Joy Interrupted 116
Cindy Buchanan Downtown Tourists 119
Miss Olson at 59 120
Joan Gerstein Southern Sun 121
Marilyn E Johnston Daughter of Insurance 130
Owners 130
’Tis You, ’Tis You Must Go, and I Must Bide 132
Ed Bearden Afternoon at The Strip Mall 134
Gardening 134
Brenda Nicholas Leonine Mane 135
For the Woman Who Eats Dirt 136
I Need Dramamine 137
Carol Hamilton Al Norte 148
Rosalind Helsinger Ode To My Blind Dachshund 157
David A Hecker My Wild Prairie Rose 164
Weaving Rags 165
Robert Estes Degrees of Disappearance 175
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