Gargoyle Online
# 12
Table of Contents
fiction
Poetry
Art
Kelli Allen
• And Then You Came Along
Rose Mary Boehm
• The Buddha Beaming Under the Rhubarb Leaf
Ryan Alan Boyle
• The Odds
Drew Bufalini
• Observation from an Alien
Anthropologist at a Starbucks
Tara Campbell
• Making the District of Columbia White
• Our Bright Experiment of Control
• America’s Beautiful Coal Amen
• Unleashing America’s Law Enforcement
Andrew Daniel Dick
• Mr. Salesfloor, Please Come to the Front of the Store
Marcesa Ephemra
• Whence and So Forth
Zary Fekete
• Canning Season (A treatment of the book of Job)
Ben Guterson
• Capsule Biography Number 20–Howard Kaminsky
D. Latta Kübeck
• John Quinn’s Fostoria Repose
Joseph E. Lerner
• The Five Obstructions
Nathan Leslie
• My Blinds are Broken, Can You Fix Them?
• My Micro and Nanoplastic Menagerie
• National Association for Fetus Armament: A Manifesto
Wayne Lockwood
• Ozzymandias
• What Happens When We Die
Justin McDevitt
• Exceptional Person
Chris Pawar
• A Rare Delivery
Gary Percesepe
• Bonaparte
• Greenland, Greenland
Steve Romagnoli
• The Sign
Elizabeth Rosen
• Now We Are Twenty-Two
• Making Sky
Donna Baier Stein
• The Last Snowfall
Susan Isla Tepper
• Ink
Maris Catherine Tiller
• Bumper Sticker
Joanna Urban
• Into the Beyond
Vallie Lynn Watson
• Farewell Aeroplane
nonFiction
Andrea Canfield
• Chincoteague: The Most
Miserable Happiest Beach Town
W. D. Ehrhart
• Whitewashing America
• Beautiful Wreckage
• The Farmer
Martin Golan
• It’s All Flat Fives, Man
Karen Laugel
• Mentor
Priscilla Lee
• Where Music Bleeds and Giraffes Parade
Charley Mitcherson
• Veola, Sophie and Claudine
Sharon North
• A USAID Farewell
Steven B. Rogers
• Paris Postcards
Yvette A. Schnoeker-Shorb
• The Bad Word
Sheryl Stein
• bat mitzvah girl 1978
Robin Tricoles
• Heart of the Horse
Elle Wood-Glas
• Motherhood
• Pregnant
Kirby Wright
• Baton Rouge
Mary Kay Zuravleff
• I Stand Here Sweeping (Reprint)
Anya Achtenberg
• Hell to play, already cast
• The breaking that
• Sudden
Deborah Ager
• Field Notes for Grieving
• Rowing Past Blood Run
Lisa Andrews
• Viewfinder (For My Father)
• Machine Hunger (In-Sink-Erator)
• Idlewild
• Show and Tell
Naa Asheley Afua Adowaa Ashitey
• “Before we
begin, I need you to tell me our safe word one more time.”
• Boundaries versus narcissism
Anne Becker
• Hands (Two) 14th C., Bronze,
Thailand
• Crazy
• Pinch Pot for Four Hands
• Poiesis
Michelle Bitting
• I Get You, Norma Desmond
Shirley J. Brewer
• Pink Flamingos Spotted on the Shores of Lake Michigan
• The Spider and the Fly
Chris Bullard
• Approaching Scylla
• Arguments For
Grace Cameron
• This is not a recipe
Nancy Naomi Carlson
• (Sub)contexts
Joel Chace
• One filched wish deserves another.
• In tents. Squished?
Patrick Chapman
• Night Shift
Victor Armando Cruz Chavez
• SALIVA OF A DEJECTED GOD
• SALIVA DE UN DIOS ABATIDO
Cait Coker
• I Saw Thor in the ModMarket
Jim Conwell
• The Question Why
• Story of Class
Juliet Cook
• My Seesaw Sideshow
• The Waterbed Will Explode in Different Directions
• Death is an Amusement Park Ride
• Dissecting Your Brain
• I Try to Be Real but Why?
Craig Cotter
• ON O’HARA’S BIRTHDAY
Barbara Crooker
• Meet Cute
• Lake George
• Small Poem Featuring Blackbirds
Deborah Elliott Deutschman
• Day #15—America
(2/5/25)
• By the End of Summer
Margaret Diehl
• After the Eclipse
• Almost Eighteen Almost Seventy
Marc A. Drexler
• Now It Is Up to Us
Kari Ann Ebert
• Vestigial Home
• Oubliettes
• The Poet Imagines Her Retirement On Martha’s Vineyard
• We Make Pancakes on Sundays
• I Had a Vision for My Vision
Corwin Ericson
• Of Course, You Know, This Means War
Alexis Rhone Fancher
• French Onion Soup
• Mojave Melody
• Poem for the Man who Loves Women
Kristin Kowalski Ferragut
• Memorie’s Intrusion
• Stars Bend Light, Erase Habit of Devotion
Irene Fick
• Just Take My Breast
• New Hope, Pennsylvania
• Four Lies and a Few Truths
Cole Fiscus
• Praying to the Mountains
• Pollock
• Fairy Tale
Naomi C. Gades
• Nursery Rhymes for Modern Times
• Look Me in the Eyes
• Holy Week
Bernadette Geyer
• Parable of Sleep
• Parable of the Lie
• I waited at the gallery
Tony Gloeggler
• Still There
• Sweet Sixteen
Sid Gold
• Alien
• Always
• Knees
Moriah Hampton
• Blanket
Kathleen Hellen
• what the mob taught me
• weather report
• dear job
Nancy Kennedy
• The Joy of Sex Too
Craig Kirchner
• Trophy
Beth Konkoski
• Losing
• My Mother Sleeps at Home
Karen Laugel
• Hands
• Childhood/Adulthood
Jane C. Miller
• Fall
• My parents on a two-month junket to Hawaii, I rode with relatives from California
to Texas
• Totems
• When Walking Away is Running Towards
Jane Edna Mohler
• Discussing Men with a Girlfriend
• To Hold Ourselves on One Leg
• Up Close
Ann Black Nash
• Obsidian Sea
• To Hold You
• Broken Window
Irene O’Garden
• Carrying America
Shaun R. Pankoski
• Tonight
Lara Payne
• Samsonite
• The Growing Season
• Planting Cosmos
Trish Saunders
• How come Melania and Barron aren’t being deported? a 5-minute read, mister president
Steven Schutzman
• Refugee
• Departure Time
Claudia Serea
• In Washington Square Park
• Ways to Disappear
• Inside the snow globe
• Vacuuming before the holidays
• Walking the High Line on a Cold Night
• Since I was little, I knew
Carol Shillibeer
• Mother did not die of suicide
• fictive kinship
• rules for raising offspring
Hilary Sideris
• Gulf of America
• 69
• Extended Release
• Feta
Caroline N. Simpson
• Four writers walk barefoot along the beach at Cape Henlopen
Michael Dwayne Smith
• Gone Fishing
• Violets in the Wash
• Note Passed from a Citizen to the Outside
Alison Carb Sussman
• The Blood of Womenfish
Jeff Thomas
• Spring in The Thumb
• When a Rural Woman Gets Mean
• Return to Nature
Emily Guardado Toledo
• Big bad principal
• in half
Barbara Ungar
• The Triangle Diner
• March Madness
Yashasvi Vachhani
• Harvest
• Hole
• A Good Research Candidate
• Fire
Dine Watson
• Abbey (Lincoln) Tells All
Renée Weitzer
• For Roz, Turning the Syllables, Read at her Memorial Service
S. Chase Wilfong
• Sergeant Hogg
• White Bucket, Brown Rabbit
• Around the Tongue with Silk
• Frogman
Pamela Murray Winters
• True Crime All the Time
• Queen of Comedy
• Jump-Start at Emily Dickinson’s Grave
• Triumph of the Mid-Century Moderns
Jody Mussoff
• Shadow, 2024, 14×11
• All Girl Band 2022, 14×11
• Voyage, 2025, 24×18
• Bubbles, 2025, 17×14
William Wolak
• The Unanticipated Excitement of Delight
• The Mirror’s Secret Lipstick
• The Despair of Silk
• Cock Five
Audio
Maxine Clair
• Running
• Dejavu
• Penmanship
• Lone Lily Beside the Road
James Norcliffe
• when the heart attack came
• Errol Flynn at Battery Point
• ATM
Mark Ari
• El Dorado
Video
Interview
Victor Armando Cruz Chavez
• Interview by Lillian O. Haynes
Edward Hirsch
Interview by By Gregg Shapiro
Special Thanks
Special Thanks to: Deborah Ager, Hildie S. Block, Michelle Brafman, Jennifer Browne, Gabriel Don, Marc A. Drexler, Mel Edden, Margaret Grosh, Lilian O. Haynes, Liz Hazen, Gerry LaFemina, Rose Solari, Susan Isla Tepper, and Mary Kay Zuravleff.
Readers—
Rose Anderson, Beth Konkoski, Raima Larter, Leah Scheble, Samantha Segal, and Sally Toner.
Wendy Guberman -Electronic mag layout
last words
rip
Parnia Abassi
Bob Andrews
Cliff Bernier
Sallie Bingham
Susan Brownmiller
Ina Césaire
Lou Christie
Dave Cousins
Patricia Crowley
Rick Davies
Rick Derringer
Rosalyn Drexler
Thomas Sayers Ellis
Serge Fiori
Susan Firer
Maurice Gee
Andrea Gibson
Graham Greene
Jane Greer
Simon Groot
Bobby Hart
Patrick Hemingway
Joe Hickerson
Jane Stanton Hitchcock
Polly Holliday
Simon House
Fanny Howe
Paulette Jiles
Ihor Kalynets
Dill Katz
George Kooymans
Cleo Laine
Al Lefcowitz
Tom Lehrer
James Lowe
Michael Madsen
Valerie Mahaffey
Chuck Mangione
Jim Marshall
Lea Massari
John Martin
Louis Moholo
David Morris
Bill Moyers
James Nolan
Alice Notley
Michael Ochs
Ozzy Osbourne
John “Poli” Palmer
Eddie Palmieri
Jim Parkinson
Mark Peploe
Jacques Poulin
Mick Ralphs
Robert Redford
Terry Reid
Marcia Resnick
Lalo Schifrin
Lynn Sheridan
Bobby Sherman
Mark Snow
Rosalind Fox Solomon
Terence Stamp
Sly Stone
Loretta Swit
George Wendt
Edmund White
Dan Wickett
Brian Wilson
Robert Wilson