Time Is a Strange Thing
by Richard LeDue
The past hurts
linger like a bruise
we pretend we don't remember
how it happened,
and we assure anyone who asks
it all must have been
an accident,
and the present can be a half-healed
scab
hidden under a sock,
but afraid of the future:
a battered, drunk fist
punching another wall
because blacking out
on Saturday nights shine a light
on all the wounds we've
accepted.
Richard
LeDue (he/him) lives in Norway House, Manitoba, Canada. He has been published
both online and in print. He is the author of eleven books of poetry. His
latest full-length book, Sometimes, It Isn't Much, was released from
Alien Buddha Press in February 2024, and his latest chapbook, Mourning for
the Petals, was self-published online for Kindle in November 2024 as an
experiment.
Cindy Rosmus originally hails
from the Ironbound section of
Newark, NJ, once voted the “unfriendliest city on the planet.” She talks like
Anybodys from West Side Story and everybody from Saturday Night
Fever. Her
noir/horror/bizarro stories have been published in the coolest places, such
as Shotgun Honey; Megazine; Dark Dossier; The
Rye Whiskey Review, Under the Bleachers, and Rock and a
Hard Place. She is the editor/art director of Yellow Mama.
She’s published seven collections of short stories. Cindy is a
Gemini, a Christian, and an animal rights advocate. She has recently
branched out into photo illustration.
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