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Wednesday Feb 22, 2012
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Submissions Currently Closed

Due to a heavy backlog submissions are currently closed until October 2012. Please do not submit work
at this time. Thank you. Next issue, Spring/Summer 2012 available in March.

Featured Contributors

  • Featured artist Khara Oxier, from the Fall/Winter 2011 issue

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  • Featured poet Justin W. Thompson, from the Fall/Winter 2011 issue

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  • Featured poet Hana, from the Fall/Winter 2011 issue

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  • Featured poet Frank Terry, from the Fall/Winter 2011 issue 

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  • Featured poet Ron D`Alena, from the FallWinter 2011 issue

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Gallery 1 Artwork

Art published by The Stray Branch. Artists own all copyrights to their work. Pictured here is "Lonely Kitchen" by this issue's featured artist, Khara Oxier View more...

Gallery 2 Photography

Photography published by The Stray Branch. Photographers own all copyrights to their work. Pictured here is "Candle in Cathedral" by Elizabeth Kate Switaj, published in the current issue View more...

Previous Issues

Previous Issue #7 Vol 4 Spring/Summer 2011
Cover art, "Identity Crisis" 
by Tray Drumhann
Check out all previous issues 4 through 7. View more...
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Hana

Featured poet Hana, from the Fall/Winter 2011 issue

 

 

LUMBER
Sunday's mass
This fanatic play
Of vestal votaries
Mislaid in the blue bleakness of nails

Harbored under protrusive bones
Veiled itself in the nauseous screams
Of those who cried

Lachrymose was their destiny

Everything got lost
Just like unstamped cards
From mystic lovers
Clasped in parched legs

Underneath sheer panties
Between black bra
Nostalgia lingered
In dampish drops of solitude

 

In Memoriam

Suzanne Richardson Harvey

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