Category: Poetry

Almost last call and the place is packed. Conversations blur to barbar. A string of satyrs makes eyes at the mirror. Some Artemis staggers her way to the loo. Apollo of the hour sips wine with the nymphs. Tender’s the nightcap: a chaser of Ouzo— I’m primed to ride Pegasus all the way home. More of Frank William Finney’s poetry is available in The Literary Fantasy Magazine: Winter 2025 Frank William Finney is a poet from Massachusetts who taught literature in Thailand for 25 years. A Joint winner of The Letter Review Prize for Poetry, his poems have appeared in…

More of William R. Ramsey’s poetry can be found in The Literary Fantasy Magazine: Winter 2025 Stiffened by the sumptuary blending of hereditary sorrow and the sum perfection of tomorrow’s unforeseen frustration, a perturbation of the field persuades us that tonight will be unlike today. Apologies to perturbations past, whose bloody entrails yesterday forebode the bulk of this: the small red berries grown recalcitrant and sullen, exogamous legumes withdrawing from our touch in such a way as to suggest a recurring trauma. All oracles agree, there will be more trauma. Current trends toward increasing workplace automation will continue. What we…