PoetrySan Francisco, I Give You My Cancer By Kristina V. Ramos
The Drive My faded Volkswagen beetle waits patiently for me to wobble to it. The drive to the beach is only twenty minutes, Just enough time for all my muscles to stiffen.…
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Poetry43 Years By Steve Denehan
I was 43 before I saw swans in flight I was born raised I loved was loved am loved I carried life in my swollen belly in my grateful arms I saw…
PoetryTruth By Sydney Dickinson
there is truth in her eyes, it looks like the dew after a sunrise. and there are stars in her hair, the ones that have no constellation to share. she is the…
PoetryHolding you By William A. Kofoed
A warm summer day and we together are in quiet reflection looking at the sea raising your arms overhead you sigh as you stretch I slip my arms around You lie back…
PoetryAsking a Blue Heron By Sean Mabry
What is love to you? The way you carry the night and the lagoon in the curves of your neck is graceful, and that is worth loving, when you look at it…
PoetryFalse Alarm By Domenic Scopa
Beyond the café window, snowfall plots to make the campus a canvas. Why is memory like that handful of breadcrumbs tossed to birds by a boy? And what does that boy think?…
PoetryLunch Email By Keith Mark Gaboury
On my lunch break, an email pops up from my Mom where her subject line’s jazzy glee shakes me wild. I tap my touchscreen to see an x-ray of her healed clavicle…
PoetryThe Leader By Joseph J. Kozma
He snorkels in two feet of water, He sky dives from two hundred feet And has two dollars to his name. He creates his own happiness, He lives in a vision and…
PoetryWelcome to This Crazy Messed Up World By Emily Emery
Bright eyes, seeing the world for the first time. Mom and Dad cry and the family welcomes you here. “There’s a lot to look forward to,” they’ll say. Plenty of tears you’ll…
PoetryBehind the Scenes By Rachel Pond
heroes in headsets the most important person you will never see saving lives each day emergency dispatcher voice of nine one one
PoetryA Posture of Sitting By David Anthony Sam
beside the moonstreaked pond, fireflies for eyes, wearing the humble wind as gown, or shroud, or veil, knowing the darker water where the cove is concealed beneath tree umbra− witness of moon…
PoetryTanka – A Long Path By David Anthony Sam
A path snakes over white sand reflecting high sun become a white glare− Gnarled black limbs interrupt me with the darkness of shadows.
PoetryLove in A Time of Rubble By G. Louis Heath
The press of shattered steel, glass, and other shiny modern Detritus fills him with pain unimaginable as his fingers grope For connection under the rubble. He cannot see. His heart flutters Wildly,…
PoetryDeer Here By Vanessa Sylvester
In the woods when the summer gives out a few leaves linger above the cyclone yellow dog, then, deer here. Above a ridge – an old stone foundation, and not even heard…
PoetryA Family Table By Steven Hale
Ivy growing out from cracks in the cinder blocks at the base of our house and down into the yard and around picnic table legs cut by my father when he still…
PoetryNocturnal By Hannah Kozich
Inside our miniature cottage deep evergreen forest white puffs swimming from crackling wood. His snore filled the abyss a charcoal blackened room. I stared out the fogged window awake as a saw-whet…
PoetryAlla Rossini By CJ Muchhala
At the age of thirty-seven, Rossini, he of the opera buffo Barber of Seville, retired to the kitchen, cannelloni alla Rossini being his most famous culinary work. Perhaps he thought he could…
PoetryDecember Now That It Has Told Its Story By Ken L. Jones
The last days of this year are like an old staircase That I don’t have to pay much attention to as it gets climbed And so I become overwhelmed by crisp air…
PoetryTheatricals By Michael S. Walker
There was Rumpelstiltskin Me playing the titular character You the miller’s daughter And every one of our parents’ friends was subjected After cards To that fairytale torture And Dr. Jekyll and Mr.…
PoetryMoment By Taylor Bain
Cars swoosh and rumble, Past this little office space, To unknown places.