Our Back Yard: Mick McMahon/Poetry

 Death of a Dandelion   The day I died was not just one day. It was a year, maybe two, maybe three – It was slow. It was painful And it went unnoticed. The sun still rose. The day I died, I did not go coughing. There was no sobbing, no wheezing, I did not die...

Our Back Yard: Keery Hastings/Poetry

Body Buried Body burned into a wooden box Or maybe gently paced into a casket; Dug just a bit too high underground. Dressed in a last pair of clothes; Hands to chest – A lonely name ground into pink marbled stone; Settled under the next available lot – The leaves from...

Our Back Yard/Poetry Review by Emily Vogel

Since Sunday   BRITTANY TOMASELLI Distributed for Omnidawn Publishing, Inc.  48 pages | 5 1/2 x 7 | © 2019 Paper $13.95ISBN: 9781632430731Published October 2019   By Emily Vogel Poetry Editor Brittany Tomaselli’s most recent collection of poems, “Since Sunday”...

Our Back Yard: Then & Now, by Stephen Poleskie

  Taking Another Fall   by Stephen Poleskie Columnist At the end of my previous column I had implied that I might write about some of my other falls in the next issue. At the time I did not know that this was going to be Ragazine’s final issue. I thought to...