The Goldfish Children  - Erin York

Dream Highway - Alan Britt

The Matter of the Marrow - Joanna Gardner

Indra's Neural Net - Joanna Gardner

 A Questionable Reputation - Joanna Gardner

Family Heirloom - Joanna Gardner

If I Were Jupiter - Missi Rasmussen

The Art of Being Late - Missi Rasmussen

Sticks and Stones - Missi Rasmussen

From the editor...

This issue of Rogue Poetry Review features nine poems from four poets who bring us work that I believe sustains a reader’s interest.  These poems are like ice bergs, there is surface and there is substance beneath.

Erin York’s poem has a wonderful audio sensory aspect and is richly dipped in the sarcastic darkness of a Plath poem. Rogue is excited to feature such a young writer with this talent. 

Alan Britt has effectively toyed with us in his Dream Highway.  Commingling fantasies, desires, fears, and perhaps a tough of reality?

Joanna Gardner gets inside our head and bumps mud butts. There are images vivid and sometimes, well sinister but never is she static.

And Missi Rasmussen is back. “My enormity would be why I never saw the dark side of me against the vivid backdrop of you…” Her metaphorical planetary images, her satirical play with time and “chemo family, skinhead family and poor family that can’t afford hats” are all here.

I hope you will enjoy this issue of Rogue.  It has been a pleasure to read the many submissions, but no easy choice to find the fit for this issue. My thanks to all the wonderful writers who made this third issue possible.

Michael A. Wells 

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