Disco Love

By Taryn Druge

They hold hands

Dancing into the midnight air

With rainbow lights that flash across erotic bodies

Songs of love blast through the speakers

The icy ocean shatters into oblivion

Entwining bodies falling into the sand

Gasping breaths and bare backs

Soaking into the particles of the earth

Enchanted by the blood

Dark eyes that search into the night

To find no candle light

With red guilt suffocation

They lose themselves into the morning mist

Bathed in blue

Blue is love

 

for christian

By Laura-Marie Marciano

i admire the spikes

through the back

of your ears, boy

 

if i could bottle

the energy it takes

to mask the fatal death

of your brother, i would

 

watch as fall becomes winter

and i am sorry i told you that

if you didn’t have a “before + after”

to write about in your personal essay

you soon would

 

i wish i could take you
into a corn maze

and make a better promise,

listening to your music

in our headphones, gliding

through the leafy stalks,

pushing our time to

more than a few moments

in the hall

 

i didn’t intend this at all

Cubist Mountains

The Poster for Wagner Issue 2

Painting by Leigh Tauss