Issue 06
poetry
“Retrospection”
by Roberta Beary
“Cloud Cover” by Greg Clary
dandelion puff
She doesn't blame her husband. When he told her it was locked in the bedroom safe, the combination their son’s birthday, she didn’t say, ‘Get rid of it.’
a wish floats
She tells the therapist what her mind holds 24/7. If their boy planned it or was just playing. But not how the blood smeared the wall like grape jelly. His favorite.
from lips to sky
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Roberta Beary writes for the silenced so that they can be heard. They live in County Mayo, Ireland. They recently collaborated on One Breath, which pairs their writing with artwork by families of people with disabilities.
Greg Clary is professor emeritus of rehabilitation and human Services at Clarion University. He born and raised in Turkey Creek, West Virginia, and now resides in the northwestern Pennsylvania Wilds. His photographs have been published in The Sun Magazine, Looking at Appalachia, Tiny Seed Literary Journal, The Watershed Journal, Hole in the Head Review, Dark Horse, Change Seven, Detour Ahead, Bee House Journal, Pine Mountain Sand and Gravel, North/South Appalachia, Tobeco Literary Journal, and many other publications. His writing and poems have appeared in The Rye Whiskey Review, The Bridge Literary Arts Journal, Northern Appalachia Review, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Waccamaw Journal, Rusty Truck, Anti-Heroin Chic, Sterling Clack Clack, Wingless Dreamer, and North/South Appalachia: Poetry and Art, Vol 1.