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On television they march again, amateur brown shirts, homegrown Nazis, self-appointed foot soldiers of apocalypse, sworn to foment terror greater than what capers in them on the nights they find [...]

Imagine water. A mud-dense country river whose surface shows nothing of what lies above it. Yet a man parks here, steps out of his truck and into the gear — black suit tight as the skin of a [...]

When dusk gentles sky to charcoal-gray, when the quiet streetlights, the tawny window-lights wink on, only orbiting moths and the house cats that quietly prowl night’s depths still hear the [...]

Al Maginnes was born in Quincy, Massachusetts and teaches at Wake Tech Community College in Raleigh, NC. His poems have appeared in many journals and magazines, including Poetry, The New England [...]