Lee Rossi is a vertically integrated poetry conglomerate, headquartered in the Greater San Francisco tech-tropolis. He writes poems and reviews, and interviews poets. His latest book of poetry, Say Anything, can be purchased at your favorite e-tailer. Prospectus available at LeeRossiSez.com.

underwater

I forgot to hold my breath
but did as I do on rooftops
or in the varied spaces
beneath trees and yet
I was surprised when
I did not lose consciousness
its large clumsy weave
streamlined as fish
I should have known that
something had changed
or I had changed
but was enough content
in that wide and luminous
place touched by light
on all sides to move
as one does whose
only motive is joy

Nick Minges lives in Sacramento, California. His work has been in The Adroit Journal, The Bat City Review, Borderlands, HASH, Santa Clara Review, and others. He was a member of the late Levee Magazine and has an MFA from Saint Mary’s College.

Being is so much better than non-being say half the philosophers
listening to my blood move as I look up from the book
I wonder why Collin decided to leave Michigan
Where is Trent and his guitar
It seems I am integral to the process of collapse
though I'm not about to argue with it.
Eventually galleon eyes breathing swollen headache swill
I watch a video of a girl making a sandwich
alone with this secret
my eyeballs almost completely deflated
& by now it's almost midnight
cars passing through puddles on the street
rain tapping the window
miserable and low the moans
of the lady in 401