Theme #4: “Gastronomy”
Three Poems
Poetry by Saima Afreen
“There’s no midnight hour in a pink / drink. It opens its atoms in a slow / dance from the mouth of the carafe / to the edge of your lips…”
Five Poems
Poetry by Kathryn Reese
“You are immersed in the folding of cling wrap…and the taste of chocolate cake egg mayonnaise licked from your finger.”
Imagining a Sandwich
Poetry by Wes Civilz
“In my mind, / Blending the several flavors till they pop / A pearl of dopamine inside my skull / And flood my brainpan…”
As a child, mother fed me sugar lemon snaps
Poetry by Kristy Snedden
“Trees of hard polished lemons / potted in the front room. / Yellow fruits sprouted like pale rocks coaxed by her slick green thumb.”
Flux Lit: 1 Poem and 1 Story
by Adrian Kresnak
“Just out of arms reach, one of the other participants was pulling some things out of her bag. It looked like a food storage container. The participant opened it; a stack of pancakes remained perfectly piled inside.”
Four Poems
Poetry by Linda Derezinski
“My fingers, greasy, smear ovals / On the pages of my library book.”
Four Poems
by Damon Hubbs
“I won’t write a memoir / or autofiction or a fictional memoir / that would be easy pudding / & I want to bring Haschich Fudge / to the Ladies’ Bridge Club & / go skinny dipping in the River Kwai…”
Rice Pudding - A Sweet Treat
Poetry by Sreelekha Chatterjee
“Garnish with rose petals, / like a tree bed decorated with / flowers, / witnessing a familiar joy.”
