EAP: The Magazine Archive

by David Bolton.

Let’s see through the wind-streaked pane
last leaves of maple burgundy, rippled skies
chill rain dancing on slate.
Hear silence ravish the drought,
drop by drop.
even squirrels give pause to this aquatic peace.
old T.S. was right:  winter does keep us warm
dreams do slip through cracks during this lack of light.
Touch the casket of bark.  Remember Spring
when branches tilted sun-ward and hope sprouted anew.
now the change of seasons, yet within trickles a spirit.
Drink deep lest the soul turn brittle and weak.
legions of hate have penetrated Babylon’s gates.
In all languages and passages, El Diablo entrances
the hearts of the lost.
Remember Revelations:  As light follows darkness
the Tree of Knowledge arises.

by Peter Mladnic. If, upon returning to the mainland from the island, you don’t go and knock on their door you’ll always be here, as if on the island, adrift between island and mainland shore, always outside their closed door. If you don’t go where they are and knock they’ll go on with their lives. […]

by donnarkevic. I did it wrong again she said as she tried to draw a flower any flower the wrong shape the wrong color it stinks, she said and I held it up to my nose but it smelled fine to me like polished silver she wanted to erase it all and start from the […]

by James Croal Jackson. Love that is no love at all I park in the sun I feel the old city meander and breathe around me like the open river in a wind storm  

by Clarinda Harriss. 2021: the melody’s ending. I liked having them in my hair. I’ll be 99 next time they sing to us. My evil aunt Senora Pat Castillo prayed to live long enough to see Castro dead. She missed by a year. Nor did my mother make 99. 1970, miniskirted, I crunched through the […]

by Chris Farago. Coq au vin for dinner.  Again. Eh, at least it’s not salmon. Or pork.  Remember (it’s a Big loaded word, that), Remember your teen years, What you did then for free, What you did for a fee. The West called to you; It calls everyone, but it Called to you specifically: It […]

by Barry Vitcov. Someone or something murdered a murder hornet in plain sight without anyone noticing or caring very much It’s not supposed to be that way Talk among other animals now a smaller animal kingdom the inhuman (inhumane?) portion of the kingdom of course lacked sympathy, empathy any language for compassion Feelings of relief […]

by Benjamin White.   -1- Directions take chances on being mistaken And are never certain about right or wrong As destinations go along with the arrows And the labels printed on signposts Where ghosts hold on with the patience Of stillness that refuses to point a way Or explain what would have been better Or […]

by Tim J. Myers. I’ve slipped away from suburbs and irrigated fields, spelunking the vaporous fissure in which blue river is snapped away forever– and now I travel descending hollowed rock-bowels to Hela’s kingdom– have abandoned the world of blue and yellow light where they pound out Christmas carols on a sour piano at the […]

by Jim Meirose. Dr. Toby VanDer-Uncle dried the last fork off his after dinner washing job, draped the towel off of the drainrack, and moved toward his big LiftyBoy reclinering TV viewing seat, hoping upon hope that a fine TV program would distract him from the bitterly-hot, but thankfully fading, disappointment—and also tinged with some […]