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 Photo by Umar Farooq on Unsplash Slow burning roadside mulleins signal with a dim yellow flame, poor, compacted soil. Consider also Queen Anne’s thigh high lace beside butter and eggs that wink like old neon. Chicory caps the mood: petals a blue men wish to find in women’s eyes they are fool enough to skid to stops for. Sunrise shovels and picks disturb shoulder earth: suburban transplants that never take to the straight and narrow. Thomas M. McDade is a 77-year-old resident of Fredericksburg, VA, previously CT & RI. He is a graduate of Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT. McDade is twice a U.S. Navy Veteran serving ashore at the Fleet Anti-Air Warfare Training Center, Dam Neck Virginia Beach, VA, and at sea aboard the USS Mullinnix (DD-944) and USS Miller (DE / FF-1091).
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 The soup made standing the mid watch worth it. Particularly the chicken variety its noodles chopped so small as to not remind you of a knot you were trying to master for seaman practical factors but Christ salty enough to twitch your fingers. Thomas M. McDade is a 77-year-old resident of Fredericksburg, VA, previously CT & RI. He is a graduate of Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT. McDade is twice a U.S. Navy Veteran serving ashore at the Fleet Anti-Air Warfare Training Center, Dam Neck Virginia Beach, VA, and at sea aboard the USS Mullinnix (DD-944) and USS Miller (DE / FF-1091).
 Lecturing grave and monument flames are pilot lights rekindling what guilt dictates. And the fiery auto wrecks work too, their drivers whose untimely urges to switch stations did them in but not the evangelists railing on and on wearing the sturdy radio waves like grace or asbestos. Thomas M. McDade is a 77-year-old resident of Fredericksburg, VA, previously CT & RI. He is a graduate of Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT. McDade is twice a U.S. Navy Veteran serving ashore at the Fleet Anti-Air Warfare Training Center, Dam Neck Virginia Beach, VA, and at sea aboard the USS Mullinnix (DD-944) and USS Miller (DE / FF-1091).
 Photo by Egor Myznik on Unsplash Being alone now means being crowded by ghosts as the world plunges with all its snow sand and empty seas toward nothing but bands of black stars and cold black vacancies where our name meets the name of everything that lives and dies in solitude never seen by anything and never known to the mind of Heaven Alexander Etheridge has been developing his poems and translations since 1998. His poems have been featured in Scissors and Spackle, Ink Sac, Cerasus Journal, The Cafe Review, The Madrigal, Abridged Magazine, Susurrus Magazine, The Journal, Roi Faineant Press, and many others. He was the winner of the Struck Match Poetry Prize in 1999, and a finalist for the Kingdoms in the Wild Poetry Prize in 2022.
 Photo by Adam Wilson on Unsplash It was another time long ago now A planetwide catastrophe all happening at once in a shadowy room with its tiny window opened to great blossoming fires leaving behind damnation’s landscape stranger than the mind of Hieronymus Bosch like a fever dream of the empty room or the angels’ own plan come to pass Alexander Etheridge has been developing his poems and translations since 1998. His poems have been featured in Scissors and Spackle, Ink Sac, Cerasus Journal, The Cafe Review, The Madrigal, Abridged Magazine, Susurrus Magazine, The Journal, Roi Faineant Press, and many others. He was the winner of the Struck Match Poetry Prize in 1999, and a finalist for the Kingdoms in the Wild Poetry Prize in 2022.
 Photo by Andy Holmes on Unsplash Fly, fall, plunge into ruin, into blue doom, fly, falling in dark matter, away, down the galaxy road to a black hole. Sink away, out of yourself, blue-red and burning moon, faithful friend, even in your calamity, and in my own and final ruin. Alexander Etheridge has been developing his poems and translations since 1998. His poems have been featured in Scissors and Spackle, Ink Sac, Cerasus Journal, The Cafe Review, The Madrigal, Abridged Magazine, Susurrus Magazine, The Journal, Roi Faineant Press, and many others. He was the winner of the Struck Match Poetry Prize in 1999, and a finalist for the Kingdoms in the Wild Poetry Prize in 2022.
 Photo by ThisisEngineering RAEng on Unspl Life's problems are like math equation each one having a different formula to arrive at a solution Life’s geometry is full of mystery Everyone has their own story Happiness lines run parallel To difficult angles of life Opportunities and struggles are X and Y axis in life’s graph the point where they intersect mark new beginnings in our personal map We subtract our ego to add meaning and substance in our relationships We multiply the joy by dividing and sharing it with our family and friends We understand our differences to differentiate our weakness we integrate our strength to inverse our fortune to face all life’s struggles and emerge victorious Math is there in our day to day life each mathematician uses a unique formula to solve life’s theorems and theories and to show the world that all life’s difficult equations does have simple solutions Based out of Chennai, India, Kavitha Krishnamurthy is a PMO by profession and a writer by hobby. She spends her free time writing poems and drawing. She looks at drawing and writing as platforms to give colour and shape to her creativity and imagination. Her works have been published in Indian periodical magazine, Unlikely Stories Mark IV, The Garfield Lake Review Magazine, and Dreich Magazine.
 I’m The light of all lights that molds you as a complete package with a cosmic brand of your own I’m the melody in all that you write the face that the world can see the mask you forget you are wearing I’m The aura that allows your words to leave a long lasting audio wave to leave a unique glow on all that you produce I’m your signature telling a thousand stories to the world I set the route for the legacy and reputation that you will leave behind I’m what you are known for Who am I? I’m your MIND, I’m the lantern that makes you shine bright and fly high in the literary sky Based out of Chennai, India, Kavitha Krishnamurthy is a PMO by profession and a writer by hobby. She spends her free time writing poems and drawing. She looks at drawing and writing as platforms to give colour and shape to her creativity and imagination. Her works have been published in Indian periodical magazine, Unlikely Stories Mark IV, The Garfield Lake Review Magazine, and Dreich Magazine.
 Few people have a wooden almirah some have a plastic almirah and some have a steel almirah. I have an almirah relationship. It's not so glowing and glossy; not filled with precious stones and jewels, but with tons of memorable smiles. It's scented with the happiest moments of my life, the fragrance of those moments rejuvenates. I unlock my relationship almirah to unveil its product highlights, it has a durable build where relationships endure and stand the test of time. It has an elegant design of staggered platforms where thought patterns are elevated to love, support, forget and forgive the mistakes of people in my life. It has organized shelves comprising friends and family, each of them having and enjoying their own space in my life; the joys and pleasures are stored inside a durable safety locker. This almirah is tension and stress-resistant and comes with a lifetime warranty. My almirah has no price tag attached to it for it is made of emotions, carved and crafted with love and affection, devoid of ego and jealousy, decorated and painted with the sweetest moments of life. Based out of Chennai, India, Kavitha Krishnamurthy is a PMO by profession and a writer by hobby. She spends her free time writing poems and drawing. She looks at drawing and writing as platforms to give colour and shape to her creativity and imagination. Her works have been published in Indian periodical magazine, Unlikely Stories Mark IV, The Garfield Lake Review Magazine, and Dreich Magazine.
 By Howard Pyle - https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18494745 While the wizard is mixing his potions, a few rare herbs that thrive only in the fertile ground beneath a dragon's anus, please take the time to read our brochure and note the fine variety of vacations available. Thankfully, the Wrexham Road soon veers off into the countryside where a noble assortment of Greys administer or discourage, depending on each individual's aesthetic tolerance. Colin James has a couple of chapbooks of poetry published. Dreams Of The Really Annoying from Writing Knights Press and A Thoroughness Not Deprived of Absurdity from Piski’s Porch Press and a book of poems, Resisting Probability from Sagging Meniscus Press.
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