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Motes
Jimmy Lisotto

The living room
Bric-a-brac sitting on a shelf
Flowers in a vase on a coffee table

Dust motes drifting lazily through the air
Visible only in the sunlight
Coming through the gossamer curtains
Unseen everywhere else
Settling slowly on the bric-a-brac
Dulling the finish

Lazily landing on the flower petals
Though the flowers will be dead
Long before they can be covered

Jimmy Lisotto is a poet in New Hampshire. He has previously been published in Agape Review, The International Library of Poetry, Solid Food Press, Trashlight Press, and Faith On Every Corner. He believes that poetry is a medium that can connect people from all walks of life. He can be found on Facebook and Instagram.

Find more of Jimmy Lisotto here!

Misguided is Behavior Formed by Will
Lynn Carole Brown

Misguided is behavior formed by will.
Can kill you with a multitude of lies.
The young man looking for a type of thrill,

embracing it he finds out how to die,
or women of the night deceived by men,
want nothing more than love, but their eyes cry-

for youthful days of promise once again.
And those who get their kicks from adverse drugs,
live high like kings, forgetting all their end,

until they find addiction is a thug,
molesting all their thoughts and stealing peace,
their lives unraveled like a shabby rug.

It can be difficult to find new lease,
the things we choose in life before decease.

You can find more of Lynn Carole Brown’s work in -
Missouri Humanities Magazine Winter 2024
Cupertino Community Anthology: Celebrate Creativity 2018
Tranquility, An Anthology of Haiku
Literary Revelations 2025
Volumes 3 and 4 of The Zest of The Lemon, Autumn/Winter 2025 editions
The Khaotic Good, October 2025
Linton Press in May 2026
Orenaug Mountain Publishing 2026