Category: poetry
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My Nana’s Video Cassette Library, His Death
by Kashiana Singh My nana’s bookshelfwas my paradise readers digests, Huckleberry Finna Britannica encyclopediaa Quran too then he grew older, my Nani died,and aloneness arrived. He decided to transforminto a lender, from a readerhis walled library became a display of video cassettesI remember, the magic of that room emblazoned by a vision, an addictiondotted with…
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Case Solved
by Kashiana Singh After the news article that states the Sacklers are one of America’s richest families thanks to OxyContin. I am vigilant, awareof the toxins that willmeet me at the otherside, of overdosepain relief, diagnosisuncertain, symptomsidiopathic I am vigilant, awareof a mold, ensnaringmy crumblingcrumbling spinenow a hollowvestibule unspokenbrittle anger, whendispensed will ravageinto white sediment, let’s…
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Haiku on Grief
Grace Gilbert’s recent poetics & lyric essays can be found in the Adroit Journal, Ninth Letter, the Minnesota review, plain china, Anomaly Literary Journal, Pretty Owl Poetry, Maudlin House, Twyckenham Notes, Vox Viola, storm of blue press, Sweet Literary Magazine, tilde, & the Gandy Dancer among others. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee and was…
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Off Season
RC deWinter’s poetry is anthologized, notably in New York City Haiku (NY Times, 2/2017), Cowboys & Cocktails (Brick Street, 4/2019), Nature In The Now (Tiny Seed Press, 8/2019), in print in 2River, Adelaide, Genre Urban Arts, In Parentheses, Night Picnic Journal, Prairie Schooner, Reality Break Press, Southword among many others and appears in numerous online…
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Agrypnotica
RC deWinter’s poetry is anthologized, notably in New York City Haiku (NY Times, 2/2017), Cowboys & Cocktails (Brick Street, 4/2019), Nature In The Now (Tiny Seed Press, 8/2019), in print in 2River, Adelaide, Genre Urban Arts, In Parentheses, Night Picnic Journal, Prairie Schooner, Reality Break Press, Southword among many others and appears in numerous online…
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Risen
by Deborah Morris After mushroom tea with honey, My head in a place of fungal beauty, Taking a slow mental trip, I’m baking bread, Is it wise, I ask myself, to work with heat, with fire? Liquid brain flows darkly around the words, “Time,” I say aloud. My mind travels But the bell will bring…
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I’d Forgive You If I Could Do It Without Hurting Myself
by Lucy Bishop Each time I try to speak, the urge to shout about the past rumbles in the back of my throat, growling Pacing like a tiger in a shrinking cage Trying to compensate, a sort of mental pissing contest between myself and myself. I am going to die in this body And it…
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The Sea
by Pitambar Naik Million questions lurk plainly it’s normal to be curious about the unseen world of green, azure, gold, flesh and blood deep inside a peaceful war very systematic outside a peaceful chaos very diligent but is it not true that your belly gets infected by carcinogenic? the mouth of a busy Ouroboros remains…
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Snowflakes
by Andy Betz Snowflakes – Each one unique. Each one individual. However, each one set apart from the billions that look almost identical to it. Defines this characteristic as diversity. Effortlessly collectivized by innermost desire to be collectivized. Will resist detailed scrutiny to reveal true identity. A perfect singularity when alone and all alone when…
Dream Noir 