Misty Mountain Review

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Poets of Issue Twelve Sketch © Shutterstock.com Anamika Mishra  Ben Groner Chris Wardle  Christopher Barnes Don Thompson Gary Beck ...

Standing by the Edge of the River                                                                                                        ...

Norfolk, Virginia In the Ronald McDonald House kitchen the little girl called my name, so I knelt down again and stared int...

Inheritance Perhaps no more than four or five, this Nepali child frowns nervously up at the ping*'s rope and Bamboo frame, uns...

Why Bother Ltd.                          (Martini glass on secretaire.) Half-hearted at poodlefaking? Here’s a progression of 10 ...

Lamp Sometimes in this world, slightly to one side of our five senses, a stone becomes translucent. It seems to be a Japanese...

Out of Control Everything in nature eats, or is eaten. Natural selection regulates existence, until human interference alte...

Paradox in drinking I add more of myself to myself in living I add more time as it subtracts JAMES C...

Ice Breaks in Mountain Stream River grunts and groans, as blocks of ice crack, break apart, crush together, shatter like old timbers....

Raspberry Picking  Sweetness glows red in thorny undergrowth. Arms scratched and nettled, we fill bags with fruit, juice on our h...

Once a peregrine, here in Brooklyn, landed close to my feet, swooping under a parked car, I presume for a rat. I never saw the reaso...

Free Fall The detachment of the moon Is like a fingernail clipping Frozen among the constellations. Crunching down the snow, ...

Alexandra David-Neel S he edits her life from a room made dark against a desert dropping summer sun. A daring travelling Parisian...

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Whistleblower The misdeeds and generally bad ideas of her coworkers permeated Ann’s consciousne...

Price of Beauty Atop the hill old trees gaunt in a clump All stand on guard eternal like a sage,  On the alert like batsman suave...