Misty Mountain Review

Poets of Issue Two   Neil Ellman Changming Yuan Richard Doiron Lee Evans Juliet Wilson Jana Branch Beth Winter Ernest Wi...

The Meaning of Blue What if a blue whale were not really blue and a blue jay blue only by refracted light— why, then, would I ...

Just a quick note: A parallel poem               Sorry   To have Changed The lock Though I had Strongly   Wished There   Would ...

As You'd Pause upon Your Path Today, once again, you'd pause   upon your path, reaching for ribbons   and roses, which you...

The Siesta of Socrates’ Dog Don’t make me tell you the truth It’s best to let sleeping dogs lie Instead you poke and you prod ...

Flood They told us we were safe. Then without warning, came the floods. We built walls to try to tame the sea but no use our lives ...

The Look of Certain Sounds Your suffering mouth on my ear, my suffering mouth buried in our sheets— this loss of civic normalcy  fi...

Judas kiss as brackish beads pollute spring rain and orbs absorb infected red betrayal breeds a filth-strewn bed deception leave...

In and out of exodus spotted calf next to the bated window carpenters are needed today in the red orange yelping brick yellow blocks ...

Shades of Irony Self immolation in a land not far, Blasphemy, lies giving birth to a moral war. What is Truth? Self immolation...

May 27 th Hope is what kept us alive Awake Expecting Constitution finally Dreams crushed Leaders punished poor citizens Pluc...

The Shape of the World The lies we tell children are shaping the world: Is being born painful? Is God the whole deal? Will r...

Human Nature Forgive me, Father For I have sinned. My last Confession Was too recent to admit. Charles Darnell lives in Sa...

New Beginnings Anger pumps  through her body,  blood pounds  at temples, eyes narrowing in irritation  at text,  her fingers...

be lie f seven years it took for the be lie f to show fissures  the belying lie nestled with the voice of a baby's breat...

Body of Lies A tremor jolted through my body, I woke up with irrepressible anger, Like a blotch of ink spreading through placid wate...