MUSHROOM RAIN
a public magazine for private notes and poems
excerpts
From Trout Quintet
Issue 0, page 11
[...]
The road slipped between
Dark hedgerows. Nothing
Was said. The engine
Sobbed as the night came
On and a tape or
The radio played
Schubert's Trout Quintet.
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From Do You See?
Issue 0, page 26
[...]
And is it warm
my knee against your knee
and do you think about it still
and do you see it is a melting?
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From Somewhere In Bosnia
Issue 0, page 7
[...] there is a silence and a stillness and a climb before the dawn. and a small room with a bed and window and a looking. and there is this inner me, the one that has crawled out from under you to be here [...]
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From Notes on becoming real
Issue 0, page 10
[...]
and the water is so still in the glass I feel
I could follow my eyes right through it
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notices
issue 1 is open for submissions until 01. august 2026
short stories, excerpts, diary entries, finished poems, unfinished poems, random notes, all welcome.




