by Ryan White
Within two years, Alice Sellers had lost her cat, Kevin, and her lifelong companion, Ruth. She would’ve given anything to get them back. But no such bargain could be had, so she wanted revenge. And since there was no revenge against hemorrhagic stroke, Alice’s last hope was killing the coyote that’d eaten Kevin five nights previous. Continue reading
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by Nathaniel Lachenmeyer
I don’t know
I’m no expert
maybe it is or maybe it isn’t Continue reading
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by Kristian Sean O’Hare
Headline taken from Smithsonian Magazine, May 2022
Ghost nets
You hide beneath
the black surface,
a sea wraith,
a silvered purse seine
with fustic skeins
of shredded rope —
like a white cloud caught
in windless blue.
Plasticosis
Poor seabird,
flesh-footed shearwater,
stomach stuffed
with bottle tops and toothpaste caps—
It is too late to save you:
On the table lies
your organs
marbled black,
and purple pierced:
a braided blue treble clef
of fishing line and hooks.
Kristian Sean O’Hare’s writing has appeared in Third Coast Magazine, San Francisco State University’s Fourteen Hills, South 85 Journal, New Orleans Review, The Indianapolis Review, Fatal Flaw Literary Magazine, Hobart, Fauxmoir Lit Mag, Reservoir Road Literary Journal, Blood Orange Review, Peatsmoke Journal, and Raleigh Review.
Filed under Poetry
by Alice Ashe
Tonight, you come dragging your laundry
behind you in a flimsy black garbage bag,
already snagged and tearing at one seam:
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Filed under Poetry
Hawaii Pacific Review 