Put your tentacles together for the January issue!

A hanging incandescent light bulb holds a cozy winter snowglobe scene with a cabin and a pine tree

Well, it’s 2024 now, which sounds suspiciously made-up and futuristic, but we’ll leave the calendar verification to the goblin particle astrologicians and focus instead on the dramatic unveiling of our one hundred twenty-third issue, which is stuffed with enough delectably weird stories and poems to sustain you through the cold, cold months ahead. Once you’ve bundled up and settled in with fiction from Jimmy Huff, flash from Jon Doughboy and Lydia Storm, poetry from Peter Dellolio and Patrick Meeds, and haiku from Nicholas Klacsanzky, you won’t even hear those unhinged winter winds twistering through the pines outside your cave. And be sure to visit the cosy cover art from Nini Kvaratskhelia.

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Solar Birdseed

Peter Dellolio

Solar
         birdseed punctures so silently
         (bug adrift),
                     leapt,
                     so we earned the
                     right to argue
                     against Cartesian
                     calculations.

         Errol Flynn knew how to
         pamper
         his
                         mustache.

 

PETER DELLOLIO. Born 1956 New York City. Went to Nazareth High School and New York University. Graduated 1978: BA Cinema Studies; BFA Film Production. Poetry collections “A Box Of Crazy Toys” published 2018 Xenos Books/Chelsea Editions and “Bloodstream Is An Illusion Of Rubies Counting Fireplaces” published February 2023 Cyberwit/Rochak Publishing.

Three Haiku

Nicholas Klacsanzky

lazy Sunday . . .
eye floaters mingle
with swallows  


abandoned tracks
the whistle
of a saw-whet owl


borsch for dinner 
no sour cream 
but moonlight

 

NICHOLAS KLACSANZKY is an editor of Haiku Commentary and Frogpond journal. He lives in Burien, Washington, and works as a teacher of reading.