Gargoyle Online
# 4

Nancy Hightower
Puddle Reflection photo
Table of Contents
fiction
Poetry
nonFiction
Roberta Allen
• Not So Good
• A Room
RR Angell
• Beachhead
Clark Bouwman
• Freddo Cappuccino
Elizabeth Bruce
• Racket
Tara Campbell
• In the City of Crying Merchants
• In the City of Falling Magicians
Roger W. Hecht
• Poem
Len Kruger
• Erwin Fletcher
Christopher Linforth
• The Last of Us
Alyce Lomax
• Plants
Anne Marsella
• Billie Jean King and Two Pink Balls
Gloria Mindock
• The Man Who Collected Eyelashes
Lance Olsen
• excerpt from Always Crashing in the Same Car
Lawrence Paulson
• So Did You Dance?
David Reel
• The Top Floor of the Sash and Blind
Doug Rice
• Rain in October
Jeff Richards
• I’m Going In
Gregg Shapiro
• Heavy Meddle
Joan Stepp Smith
• Time Released History 2 Mitigate Grimoire
Jennifer Bort Yacovissi
• The Appointment
Tim G. Young
• The Real Photo
Serena Agusto-Cox
• Endless Spiral
Joel Allegretti
• Poem Inspired by Degas’s L’Absinthe
• Autobiography of the Gimp
Mary Bargteil
• Life’s Anvil
Alessandra Bava
• Love Letter to Anne Sexton #17
• Love Letter to Anne Sexton #37
Craig Bertuglia
• Revival
CL Bledsoe
• Dog in the Rain
• The Work of Dying
Ace Boggess
• The Ex-Cons Parade
• White Rabbit
J.D. Brayton
• Chalk
Shirley J. Brewer
• Memoir in 22 Lines
• Cubicle 4
Michael Brockley
• Threshold
• Wile E. Coyote Faces an Existential Crisis and Doubts His Worth as a Lover
Nancy Naomi Carlson
• Calder’s Menagerie
• An Excess of Dreaming
• By Any Other Name
Maxine Chernoff
• Diary: In a house I’ve never seen
• Diary: Simple realism
• Diary: At the flea market
Lisa Couturier
• A Letter to My Father’s Lewy Body Dementia
• A Map for My Father
Henry Crawford
• Afterwards
Katharine Davis
• She’s Leaving Home
• Don’t Tell the Children
Barbara Westwood Diehl
• On Not Drowning at a Family Reunion
• I Wanted to Ride to Work in the Back of a Pickup Truck
Margaret Diehl
• Confessional
• The Obituary
Denise Duhamel
• Orchid
• The Globe
• Adaptation
• Flip
• My Mother’s New Daughters
John Eustis
• The Bad Samaritans
• Demolition
Andy Fogle
• Mother Countries
• The Swimming Lesson
Richard Fulco
• Anderson Park
• Suburbanly Stoned
Sid Gold
• Beauty
• Cry
Eric D. Goodman
• Water Fall Blues
• Embracing Hermithood
Erica Goss
• At Eleven
• Guerrilla
Shelley Blue Grabel
• Random Fact
Anne Graue
• Why I Play Candy Crush on My Phone Every Morning
Nina Heiser
• West Side Algebraic
Amy Holman
• Intelligence
• Wild Borough
Paul Ilechko
• Ghost Town Sonnet
• The Father the Jazzman
Jeffrey N. Johnson
• Mediate, Meditate
Ken Kakareka
• Some Events in October
• ticket
• Nothing New
W. F. Lantry
• Flood Warning
• Gold
• Knowing Ourselves
Christopher Locke
• King Carter
Gregory Luce
• Pharoah Sanders Meets Coltrane in Heaven
Jack Mackey
• 1701 Q Street Conversion
• Ada Limon Perches on my Knee and Reads Her Poems
• When You Really Wish You Were Stupid
• Hamartia
• Happy Endings
e. megg magee
• Giraffes Hum To Each Other Throughout the Night
Joyce Enzor Maust
• The Day I Left Home
• The Songs of My People
Chloe Yelena Miller
• Italian Vocabulary: Intimissimi
• Pantheon
Miles David Moore
• Cutting to the Chase
• Chopin Mazurka
• The Criminal
Robert Michael Oliver
• The Creation Cycle
C. Mikal Oness
• This Goes with That
• For the Love of Cows
• The Implements in the Copse
Steven B. Rogers
• Field Notes
M. A. Schaffner
• Plague Diary: Not a Post Script by A Long Shot
• The Confederate Flag
Eric Paul Shaffer
• Ceremony, In the American Twilight
• Sylvia Plath’s Keyboard Lament
• Lettered Among the Stars in Heaven
Walt Shulits
• For Winston
Sharon Suzuki-Martinez
• Duct Tape
Devin Taylor
• Daddy Choirboy
Susan Isla Tepper
• Bled Off
Gillian Thomas
• Caged
• Women on Horseback
Erick Verran
• The Zygomatic Process of the Temporal Bone
• Ode to Bouldering
• Jumpers
• A Carousel at the End of the World
Emma Sky Wolf
• In the Center
Jamie Brown
• Half-Life
Rick Campbell
• Flying
• Lucky, Lucky Life
Nita Congress
• Doris Grumbach
Brandel France del Bravo
• Resilience V and VII
Gary Fincke
• The Barter System
Kelly Ann Jacobson
• Fancy
Susan Bucci Mockler
• Epistolary Writing
Hillary White
• rabbits
Audio
Larissa Shmailo
• My First Hurricane
• The Gospel According to Magdalene
Rebecca Villarreal
• Rubberband Ball for Joey
• Steel Wool
ART
Camille Martin
• Arrival
• The Calling
• Squid
• The Sublime
DJ Gaskin
• Butterfly Dance
Jose Padua
• 4 Photos
Linda Rodgers
• “Backyard winter still life” 2022
Special Thanks
Wendy Guberman – Electronic mag layout
last words
“There’s really no such thing as the ‘voiceless’. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.”
― Arundhati Roy
“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”
– Anna Quindlen
rip
Robert Adamson
Angelo Badalamenti
Greg Bear
Jet Black
Christian Bobin
George Booth
Dave Butz
Michael Callan
Irene Cara
Robert Clary
Geoff Cochrane
Robbie Coltrane
Glenn Corbett
Gal Costa
Milovan Danojlić
Cotton Davidson
Herbert A. Deutsch
Vince Dooley
Barbara Ehrenreich
Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Anton Fier
Louise Fletcher
Jean-Luc Godard
Mick Goodrick
Robert Gordon
Derek Granger
Doris Grumbach
Ray Guy
John Hadl
Terry Hall
Alan Halsey
Franco Harris
Marva Hicks
David Huerta
Marsha Hunt
Ian Jack
Luther Johnson
Wilko Johnson
Danny Kalb
Aline Kominsky-Crumb
Doug Lang
Angela Lansbury
Keith Levene
Jerry Lee Lewis
Ramsey Lewis
Lenny Lipton
Sterling Lord
Lee Lorenz
Loretta Lynn
Hilary Mantel
Stuart Margolin
Javier Marias
Bernadette Mayer
Diane McBain
Mary McCaslin
Christine McVie
Rab Noakes
Diane Noomin
John Jay Osborn, Jr.
Irene Papas
Mimi Parker
Pele
Gaylord Perry
Jo Carol Pierce
Sybil Pike
Cecile Pineda
William Rivers Pitt
Andrew Prine
Ned Rorem
Maya Ruiz-Picasso
Lori Saint-Martin
Pharoah Sanders
Peter Schjeldahl
Marcus Sedgwick
Curt Simmons
Lucy Simon
Don Skiles
Gerald Stern
Jim Stewart
Peter Straub
Alain Tanner
Jean Teule
Barbara Thompson
Trevor Tompkins
Charley Trippi
Nik Turner
Ian Tyson
Fred Valentine
Barbara Walters
Sonny West
Vivienne Westwood
Maury Wills
Dean Young