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Poetry by Glen Armstrong
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A Eulogic Poem by John M. Bennett
Elegic Poetry by John M. Bennett
Poetry by Wendy Taylor Carlisle
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Poetry by Vincent A. Cellucci
Poetry by Joel Chace
A Spoken Word Poem and Visual Art by K.R. Copeland
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Poetry by Win Harms
Poetry by Carolyn Hembree
Poetry by Cindy Hochman
A Eulogy by Steffen Horstmann
A Eulogic Poem by Dylan Krieger
An Elegic Poem by Dylan Krieger
Visual Art by Donna Kuhn
Poetry by Louise Landes Levi
Poetry by Jim Lineberger
Poetry by Dennis Mahagin
Poetry by Peter Marra
A Eulogy by Frankie Metro
A Song by Alexis Moon and Jonathan Penton
Poetry by Jay Passer
A Eulogy by Jonathan Penton
Visual Poetry by Anne Elezabeth Pluto and Bryson Dean-Gauthier
Visual Art by Marthe Reed
A Eulogy by Gabriel Ricard
Poetry by Alison Ross
A Short Movie by Bernd Sauermann
Poetry by Christopher Shipman
A Spoken Word Poem by Larissa Shmailo
A Eulogic Poem by Jay Sizemore
Elegic Poetry by Jay Sizemore
Poetry by Felino A. Soriano
Visual Art by Jamie Stoneman
Poetry by Ray Succre
Poetry by Yuriy Tarnawsky
A Song by Marc Vincenz


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by Maria Damon and Michelle Greenblatt

Abandoned
adrift the rising high
tide, unable to break
the algae-

encrusted chains of his ever-
drifting, undersea
prison, Centaur floats, bereft in
his sublittoral cell.

Maritime
sounds dig deep
into Centaur's sea-surrounded mind; dendritic overload
taxes frazzled synapses, flooding
every thought-

channel until all
he hears are waves. Bypassing
his horned

ears, their constant whisper-sighs
penetrate his blood-brain
barrier. Shivs of
sea shank him repeatedly. They
remake him; he becomes ocean
itself.

Lost
amid the neritic black,
submerged
beneath the brackish

water's rusted utilities, he chokes
on the abyssal
hypersalinity. His subaqueous sense

of severance
from home
intensifies. Transmarine
perceptions have made a home

of his mind; memories of his former life
blur like his murky ocean-
vision. He delves
into his shore-stored collection
of the ocean's leavings, the sand- and sea-inscribed,
time-

polished debris
subsiding waves abandon.
He constructs a coronet
of bones bound
together with salt-
encrusted seaweed, he fashions
a diadem and vows (once
again) not to lose hold
of his last splintered memories
of home-
life. He crowns himself king

of the sea, ruler of its precious
detritus. Seadusk distilled
through emerald undercurrents marks the first day
of his reign.



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