Summer Love, What it was

Poem & photo by Ryan Plunkett Sometimes, in Fall mostly, but also just sometimes it seems like everyone becomes a makeshift leper and loses their parts to the attrition of lonely days and fantasies about bright white drive-in theaters on Wisconsin plains next to interstates, broad plains, recumbent where the world is still known to [...]

Winter Solstice

By Adam Zuehlke at the Mysterium. With photos on film expired before photographer’s birth. A poem I wrote (after midnight) paying homage to Wynne Renz’s style. Sobriety = Local Hip-Hop = Chimneys = Darkness = In-between Beauty = Books = Fireworks in the woods = Cassoulet = Vanished Friends = Pensive = Gnarled & Rustic [...]

The Fish Hatchery

by Sarah Kulla Close to Ennis, Montana, a windswept and quiet place, My dad took me to a fish hatchery. I must have been 12 years old That summer, my teeth shooting out at all angles, Bony kneecaps, ears that grew up before my head did. There were hundreds of fish And dozens of pools [...]

Unknown Unfair Contest

Photos by Zoe Aparicio with anonymous meditations by a thoughtful  mobile informant I drove through the valley watching the sprayplanes and in awe of the rowcrops as far as the eye could see in the endless valley. Up over the grapevine with all the trucks. It’s an ugly god forsaken freeway, I stopped to pee [...]

Warm Country

by A. Sønju Editor’s Note: The following image and accompanying .pdf are presented as a continuation of the author’s previous piece on High Contrast Review, Jesus & June.  Inspired by everything from the idea of The Watch – that there is an organization which ‘keeps the engines of change in working order’ – to Cowboy [...]

Wind On My Skin

by Luke D. Thomas Esq. photo by Caroline McCarty   The world never stops, it’s always humming a song. Sometime I hear it and sometimes I cannot. In Southern California the palm trees shimmer in the breeze. The surf comes in. The movement of the ocean never ceases. I wonder what the wind would feel [...]