Vol. I · No. 24 · The Weekly Issue · From Key West to the Panhandle
The FloridianReporting, fiction, criticism, poetry, and cartoons — from the peninsula
Poetry · Poem
An exploration of concrete structures and salt water in Tampa Bay.
The concrete pilings drink the bay and grow their ruffs of barnacles beneath the steady hum of tires.
Here the mullet leap in silver curves against the shadow of the interstate, indifferent to the daily commute.
A plastic bag floats like a jellyfish in the green, diesel-slicked tide where the pelican dives.
Poem
An observation on the swift arrival of rain across the inland water.
Poem
An account of the citrus groves of Polk County under a hard frost warning.
Poem
A short poem for the hour that is not quite an hour.
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