Gargoyle Online
# 3

Nicelle Davis
photo by Alexis Rhone Fancher
Table of Contents
fiction
Poetry
nonFiction
Art
Mary Ann Cain
• How Do We Know Planets Will Persist
Eric Darton
• CorpoReal
April Ford
• Snapdragon
Avital Gad-Cykman
• Mothers
Karen Goldstein
• Flip Flops
Melanie S. Hatter
• excerpt from “All the Pain We Endure”
Richard Holeton
• Counting
Nathan Leslie
• Our Unwired Yurt is Better than Your Wired Non-Yurt
• Back of this Shampoo Bottle
John Saul
• Havana
Stan Lee Werlin
• All the Days We Whirled
Lora Berg
• High-Wire
• Ululations
Sara R. Burnett
• Hard Lemon
•Sonnet for a Time of Ambivalence
•There Are No Words For
Hayes Davis
• Burn the Blindfold
• Dolphin Speaks
• The Unwritten Poem Speaks
Nina Heiser
• Weeding
• Land’s End
Erin Hoover
• the nineties
• the power of passive voice
• What use are you?
George Kalamaras
• Listening to “Park Avenue Petite,” Hearing My Rain-Raked Heart All Over Again
• Jack Wilson Tries to Convince Roy Ayers to Join His Quartet, 1963
• One Night in Indy, January 18, 1959, Eddie Higgins Trio with an Unknown Bassist
• Not Just Forest Rain but Bamboo Hollow: Fancy Miss Nancy’s “Happy Talk”
David Kirby
• Demons, Also Saints, Scientists, and Love-Struck Sophomores
• Outfit Alert!
• Gerda Weismann is Putting on Her Ski Boots
Elisabeth Murawski
• much worse things
• Remembering Worldly Laura
Frederick Ramey
• Untitled
Lawrence R. Smith
• The Lex
Virgil Suarez
• Trigger Warnings
• Days of Quarantine
• A Gathering of Ladies Around a Bonfire
Pamela Murray Winters
• Hush
• Provincetown Seduction
• Anyway, the Moon
Rick Campbell
• At the Beach: Covid High Tide
Peter Cherches
• Mothers
Glenn Deutsch
• Among Javelina
Gary Fincke
• Deflections
Patricia Henley
• Beginner Mind
Kelly Ann Jacobson
• Calf Poetica
Bob Kunzinger
• Behind Bars
Raima Larter
• Pillar of Salt
Donna Moss
• Home
Steven B. Rogers
• Running the Grunion
Vallie Lynn Watson
• The Long Walk
Nicelle Davis
• Cover
Margaret McCarthy
4 photos
• Crystal Boots
• Crystal Dress
• Orange Crush
• Piercing Diptych
Audio
Tina Fulker
• Snow Storm II
Josip Novakovich
• Anatomy Professor
Special Thanks
last words
“All poets, all writers are political. They either maintain the status quo, or they say, ’Something’s wrong, let’s change it for the better.’”
—Sonia Sanchez
“It’s not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction,
but the flesh made word.”
—William Gass
“I write fiction because it doesn’t make claims to Truth or pronouncements or
general statements about life, it narrates them.
—Lynne Tillman
“Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.”
— Andrew Gide
“Write a short story every week. It’s not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.”
–Ray Bradbury
“I have lived a thousand lives and I have loved a thousand loves. I’ve walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time.
Because I read.”
–George R.R. Martin
“Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.”—Alice Walker
rip
Shinzo Abe
Melissa Bank
Jennifer Bartlett
Taurean Blacque
Raymond Briggs
Frederick Buechner
Pat Carroll
Kal David
Vincent DeRosa
Tony Dow
Lamont Dozier
Judith Durham
Nicholas Evans
Alberto Gaitán
William Garrison
Frank Gatling
Noah Eli Gordon
Dani Graule
Helen Grayco
Clu Gulager
Michael Henderson
Darryl Hunt
L.Q. Jones
James Longenbach
Jim Lynch
Don Mattera
David McCullough
Nichelle Nichols
Monty Norman
Claes Oldenburg
Mo Ostin
Wolfgang Petersen
Bob Rafelson
Sandy Roberton
Bill Russell
Vin Scully
Jean-Jacques Sempe
Paul Sorvino
Monnette Sudler
Creed Taylor
Barbara Thompson
Leon Vitali
Tom Weiskopf
Ernie Zampese