David E. Matthews
David E. Matthews lives now in his home state of Texas, in the Hill Country. For 20 years, Unlikely Stories has published his barbaric yawp. A fact that stupefies him with pleasure & gratitude.
with her prowed breasts
with her hands down, like an irish dancer
she scurried slowly across
Recent Articles:
"Manifestation" and "When perfect delinquents"
by Andrew Cyril MacDonald
Three Visual Poems, October 2021
by Joel Chace
Sequel
by Francine Witte
Death as a Money Wheel
by Ken Poyner
"2010, East Oakland, CA," "It Can Happen Now...TO YOU," and "The Anthropocene Blues"
by henry 7. reneau, jr.
M'Lover
by Andrena Zawinski
Before Tomorrow
by DB Cox
On Reading Editor Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore's "Between Certain Death and A Possible Future"
by Su Zi
Autotroph
by Iggy Oddity
Refugees from OneNote Planet
by Sultana Raza
Effie Lutz
by Robert Leo Heilman
Three Visual Poems, October 2021
by VaL Smit
"Consolation Prize," "In Celebration of Mistakes," and "No Gravity"
by Sheila E. Murphy
"'steady eric'" and "it's frozen"
by harry k stammer
My Mexican Days
by Thomas M. McDade
Citizens of Earth;
by Cornelius A. Sasquatch
The Tiger
by Andrew Fowler
"The Scent of Green" and "Dying from a different kind of arid"
by Sharon Lopez Mooney
"Sheets of burnt composition paper," "Newsprint fingers," and "Pancake mustache frozen in place"
by Joshua Martin
Mucus
by Paul Kavanagh
Camera Obscura
by John A. Griffin
"Homage," "Testament," and "As A Citizen"
by Peter Maeck
"Beatitude: from Syria," "Anxiety at the Borders," and "We have been."
by Leslie Prosterman
Dayenu
by DeWitt Henry
Six Paintings, September 2021
by Giorgia Pavlidou
"helios, you adorable psychopath," "here the palm trees wave at you saying everything is possible," and "the split second the heart of the solar system skips a beat for no reason"
by Giorgia Pavlidou
"My Problem with Statistics," "Name the Responsible Party," "'Adorable,' They Said," and "Back when destination was fluid"
by Carol Dorf
"Bodega Privilege" and "Hidden Figures of Harlem"
by Celestine Woo
"20/20 vision" and "Death in the City"
by Roy Duffield
The Notaclysm
by Ryan Undeen
Manufactured Goods
by L. Shapley Bassen
monroe and she
by matt monroe and lea leone
"cobalt blue," "small gift, early autumn" and "through rain, through walls of poisoned sunlight"
by John Sweet
"You act like this is a game—" and "Sunflower Seeds of Indignation"
by E. Martin Pedersen
"Earth Speaks," "Birthday Bucket-list," and “Recalibration"
by Karen Neuberg
The City is Alive!
by Jonathan Hayes