The Long Way Depart before dawn, follow the dirt path into the valley hidden by fog, where rust-brown and dusty-gray coyotes glide...

Laurie Rosenblatt is co-founder and co-editor of LEON Literary Review. She received and MFA from The Program for Writers at Warren Wilson...

lost at sea adrift with no consolation sunk cost misspent energy shunned so close to shore denied from mooring i am nothing to no one—...

We have a globe in our hands “Mamma! Why don’t we go on a vacation?” My daughter pops up this question every other day. “We can go in the...

Wrestling I imagine her name is Cassandra, She hates to be called Cassie She hates wanting to fit in, but she doesn’t realize it yet She...

SPRING TERROR The surf is surging salt and quake, blue turned white like suds from soap, defects bearing mites afloat with curly languid...

Wave Theory The lagoon stumbles out, a blue sheet, rimmed by a green line of mangrove. Sky folds against ocean, a faint crease parsed by...

DARLA It’s not the way we danced around your grandparent’s grave, Nor how your body was indistinguishable from smoke when you stood still...

Liam Wholihan's out of his apartment before dawn, taking care of baseball and softball fields in Morgantown, West Virginia. When he's...

Three Sea Haikus Pearl Morning of Mist Pearl morning of mist Clipper ships in the harbor: Undressing lover. The Harbor Air Rough, coarse,...

low tide the waves stella maris witches' reed south node Fiadh Marais is an emerging writer chasing passion in a world full of potential....

Body Surfing Mother said the corn flakes will cause cramps so you wait till your breakfast is digested before you go in the water. Next,...

Sebastian do not go and stay on land, do not be a teacher, do not marry a woman, do not stay in your sickbed in Illyria and perish there....

Sebastian do not go and stay on land, do not be a teacher, do not marry a woman, do not stay in your sickbed in Illyria and perish there....

Not Her Ocean --National Aquarium, Baltimore, MD The escalator hums rubber beneath her as she ascends to the second floor: touch pool,...

California Dreaming I sauntered into a fairy-tale in the midst of the night and most of the fairies were asleep. only a charismatic...

Ocean Look how the joining of land with sea or its attempt displays in loops. Slight edges gray to off-gray and the point where who can...

Some Kind of Retirement Income Our shabby little beachside souvenir shop cringes with shame. The T-shirts, pennants, postcards, and junk...

Buying Gas with Quarters from my Center Console Though it sets behind me, I watch as the sun turns clouds from cotton to taffy—pink to...

Sail One day maybe I will drift A wooden plank, out to sea. Curved, contrived, countering, Encompassed violet (a place beyond you)....