MUSHROOM RAIN
a public magazine for private notes and poems
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excerpts
From Two Misfits by Strider Marcus Jones
Issue 1, page 47
it was no time
for love outside—
old winds of worship
found hand and mouth
in ruined rain
slanting over cultured fields
into pagan barns
with patched up planks
[…]
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From The Many Summers by Bruce McRae
Issue 1, page 5
[…]
It’s half past Dreamtime, a falcon diving among paper Chinese kites,
burnished, like the sun that’s setting, and one boy hollers,
red-faced as the mother who’s calling him home.
[…]
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From Personal Raindrop by Fred Gerhard
Issue 1, page 19
[…]
but noticing my toes
had strayed from cement path
to patch of moss
there I stayed, peering down
saying “Yes” out loud
to what might be looking up
to me
for a sign
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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 – thank you
Submissions for Issue 1 are now closed, and our first official issue is finally out! Cannot thank you all enough for trusting us with your work and for making this issue possible.
issue 2 is open for submissions until 01. OCTOBER 2026
short stories, excerpts, diary entries, finished poems, unfinished poems, random notes, visual art — all welcome.
issue 2 – theme (optional)
As this will be our autumn issue, I would like to invite work that explores the concept of transformation. If you have any pieces written during, after or about a period of change, please share them with me as the leaves turn and fall.
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