Like a lace-
bordered
handkerchief
used to mop
up fires,
a gold
Ecuadorian
doubloon
the sun
has begun
to melt,
a look that says,
If anyone
finds a key
to a Volkswagen,
please
let me know.
HOWIE GOOD is the author of a full-length poetry collection, Lovesick, and 21 print and digital poetry chapbooks, including most recently, Hello, Darkness, available from Deadly Chaps.
There was no heat in winter. Feasts were potato soup dinners. Cooking fuel was rare. Raw potatoes were fare otherwise. “I was always hungry. Not for dinner hungry either.” Pop, an orphan, always starved. School had heat. An education too. Heat’s why mother went. I am their child. A Baby Boomer. I got three meals. Gas furnaces. TV. A transistor radio. The only love they knew.
STEVE PRUSKY is a transplanted Detroiter who now lives, works and writes in Las Vegas. He attended Northern Michigan University in the late sixties. After that he was in the Navy during the Vietnam War. After that he attended the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. His work has recently appeared in Foundling Review, The Legendary, Apparatus Magazine and Flash Fiction Offensive.
DAN CARROLL is the cartoonist behind Stick Figure Hamlet and The Political Machine. If you buy a copy of his book, he promises to eat a gyro while saying, “MMM, THANKS [YOUR NAME]!”
