As She Builds Planets You must respect the space around the body for she lives to build planets for tomorrow. Dim she seems in the paleness of her shawl yet she burns with the passion […]
Category: poetry
Persephone
by Rae Rozman Last night, I dreamt of us on a warm fall evening sitting beside a campfire Tom Petty crooning Wildflowers from unseen speakers passing a bottle of bourbon back and forth. You wore […]
New Island Revealed by Melting Glaciers
by Ajay Kumar Dimensions of the island- you by me. The news anchor forgets her name, on the news-there is nothing to say, the weather forecast before a blank map- we’ll see what happens. It […]
Three Poems by Rae Rozman
Dualities I slept with your glove (maroon, leather) woven between my fingers. It smelled like you. I awoke with your glove (leather, maroon) pressed against my naked chest. It smelled like me. How quickly you […]
The Ruins
by Jen Mierisch I. In the nineteen-eighties, my parents’ house collapsed. Stubbornness split its beams, conflict cracked the foundation, friction wore away its floors. Walls rotted from the constant floods of bitterness and disenchantment. A […]
death comes at any time morning night, old or in youth are you ready now? beauty in all everything that she is She is one with God A Fortunate Love Floating Among the Broken On […]
Eight Years Old empty swing laughter of their child still ringing Chicago Winters winter trees each robed with snowfall Japanese Garden moonlight koi fish swimming in dark water … Andrea Byrd is a Junior […]
Two Haikus
by Cat Kivett Smith Memory Records concurrent rainbow bleeds deep and then soaks around circular time layers The Dictionary dashed-up expression splashes neat over each side sentences knock dry … Artist: Ruthorn Rujianurak Cat […]
memories of you before you’re gone; dried petals on the windowsill crackling on the breeze tiny sparks of burning chaff glitter in your eyes light that ripples on loneliness in company by a purling brook […]
Cerulean-Inarticulate
by Patrick Karl Curley your body bathed in that blue, that blue the sky takes on just before the dawn breaks, on an August morning, while there are still stars. … Artist: Trippy Patrick Karl […]
