Rolling Down Walt Whitman’s Open Road / The Rabbit in the Magician’s Hat / Always Miraculous
The Midnight Secret Paradise / Light Has No Light
Open Window / Agatha Taking Off
The Witching Hour
Sunstroke
Why Women Wear Pockets / What Should I Pack to Visit?
The Last Manifesto of the Year
Look Me Up / No One Says Anything
I Am a Poem / Walking Down the Yard
Gerard Melanga’s Neck Ties / Trees of Bone
Vronsky
Our Hunger
First Frost
Querulous
Landing
The Travails of the Heart /
I Come Upon a Flea Circus
Natural Causes / Tom Piazza Blues
Humpback Gets a Taste of Kayak
Surf’s Up
Surfers Under the Pier
What Can Best Be Achieved on a Bicycle
Almost Worth It
The Understanding /
The Situation
Sea Nocturne
What Friends Are For
This is the Life (Where You Learn to Be Kind)
Sitting Here Contemplating
the patience of untying knots
Issue 5, Winter (2024) : 32 poets, 43 poems
Editor’s Note: From deserts to beaches to unhoused and displaced, there is grief, humor, grit, wit, compassion, self and social surfing and search for love + acceptance + ethereal wisdom… to conquer all… in this more than bountiful issue. I would like to give a warm thanks to all the wonderful poets who shared their work with Beach Chair. It is my winter wish that poetry like this continues to thrive and inspire and connect with people, writers and readers, across all seas. Hope these words find you in safe and curious journeys. Happy Holidays, beach on! —B.H.
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