“Church Flowers” “Growing up” & “Mother-Daughter Duties” by A. R. Tivadar
“Church Flowers” It’s called the blue church Because the roof is blue. Inside is dark and sombre, Chandelier light is golden. The Father...
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- May 18
- 3 min
"Her" "Y or N?" "The Tale of the Bottle" by Claudia Wysocky
“Her” All these lines. All these words. All these thoughts, scribbled across paper for a girl I do not see. (Not know.) Scribbled in ink,...
- May 10
- 1 min
"The Quiet Fizz Of Slow Joys", "The language of an asylum is a misunderstood fracture" & "Whatever You Thought" by Christian Ward
The Quiet Fizz Of Slow Joys Grief is not downing another glass of prosecco while the moonlight excavates the quarry of a night sky....
- May 10
- 3 min
"object permanence: queer death", "another poem about skipping communion", "pills not of killing" by Liam Strong
object permanence: queer death i troweled loam last summer for this, a pine sapling, loitered with creeping charlie, door- knobs of...
- May 10
- 1 min
“A head full of flames” By gabriel victor deibel
“A head full of flames” A spell of rain Wash the smoke rings from my brain I hope, I know Let the floodgates overflow Through my veins...
- Apr 26
- 2 min
"Timers", "This [] does not exist" & "This is water" by Victoria Spires
Timers Understand this. It is an error to think that One need obviates another. Picture the parts Of yourself as a row of egg timers:...
- Apr 25
- 1 min
"Spring" by Max Madsen
My dog's head hangs out the window, breeze on his face with a little support for his hind legs. Driving past California Street, but...
- Apr 25
- 1 min
"24 Words Spoken On A Park Bench". by Rebecca Agauas
We sat on the park bench together, on opposites ends, in silence. The birds swirled around our heads and played tag. Flowers danced in...
- Apr 25
- 2 min
"game boys", "grape hyacinth", "Exit 143" and "capitalist comb" by Jawn Van Jacobs
game boys when we’re young we ask our parents if our friends can stay one more day for play when we’re older we ask our lovers to stay a...
- Apr 19
- 8 min
"A Porcelain Symphony" By Stacia Kokoletsos
Her eyes were shiny and still, like glass. Her skin, now the texture of porcelain, and devoid of any life; pale as the face of a ghost....
- Apr 18
- 3 min
"LOSING MY RELIGION", "Berry Boulevard Blues", "Camp Lejeune Redux", "MEMPHIS" & "Desire" by Robert M. Zoschke
LOSING MY RELIGION why, of course, Michael Stipe said it so much more eloquently better putting his blood sweat tears fears hope dreams...
- Apr 18
- 1 min
"How Informal to be So Normal" By Rosella Weigand
How informal to be so normal In a world where no one is defined As such, because a definition Can’t be a summation, If the meaning...
- Apr 18
- 2 min
"Pre-Existing Condition" by Dylan Garcia
Society has always made a joke out of people like me. Don’t eat that. You’ll get the diabetes. That candy was so sweet I can feel the...
- Apr 18
- 4 min
"Misfortune" by Zi Chen
Jade thrusts the marinated fish into the wok before instinctively flinching. The oil jumps up from the wok immediately, just as she...
- Apr 18
- 1 min
"Cut the head off of the snake" By Nevaeh Phillips
You have a tendency to slither back in Cut the head off of the snake Doesn’t it feel restricting? Cut the head off of the snake The...
- Apr 18
- 1 min
"glass", "night is underwater" & "troubled eye" by M.S. Blues
glass glass isn’t sincere; sure, it’s clear, it’s as breathtaking as kashmir, but it jeers, it’s damage is cold and precise like a spear,...
- Apr 18
- 5 min
Why Did You Stay? By M.S. Blues
August of 1999 When Jim Gradferd died, everyone in the bloodline had rushed to the chapel, even those who weren’t speaking to him during...
- Apr 18
- 3 min
"The New Colosseum" by Kalvin Madsen
It started when the viewer was young. Too young. Urged to ingest death as a trooper, or a spectator to gladiatorial games, only with a...
- Apr 18
- 2 min
"Forest" & "Hopeful Spring" By Rebecca Harding
The Forest In the forest, calm and quiet, where all my family rests, the people come in all their riot, while beating on their chests....
- Apr 18
- 2 min
"Wildfire" "and it begins" "that’s one way" "Creativity Must Be Spontaneous" & "lila. (01)" By Chriss Locker
w i l d f i r e every july the west burns the skies darken sicken from yellow to brown to grey and the wind fans the flames that cleanse...
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