by Thomas Piekarski 7 7 Called vixen &&&&&&&&you respond playing piano &&&&&&&&yet fingerless causing fractures[…]
Category: poetry
Two Poems
by Christina Petrides Pressure To be silenced is to be discouraged. Stifled dreams seep away to poison air, earth, and people. Unrealized ambitions, thwarted hopes, and muted prayers seethe until they burst into enraged action— […]
Train Ride To Kaltungo
by Efe Ogufere A creation story in Eden we shared midmorning conversations with a butterfly 7 Wildfire from within the flames voices in my mother tongue urging me to jump & The Origin of Butterflies […]
Two Poems
by Angelica Liu Oblivious It began with– a dumb pain, as if a nip in heart and then– a silent scream, as if a struggle underwater and then– a static breakdown, as if a dying […]
The Invasion
by Holly Day The caterpillar crawls along the leaf, a promise of butterflies thwarted. Rough, orange knobs cover its back, a rash of wasp eggs laid just days before. At any moment wasp larvae could […]
Two Haikus
by Rachel T. Smith The song is sweet love until it makes you cry, then it’s called nostalgia. Here I can almost see the secrets inside of all the universe. … Artist: […]
Poet’s Prayer for an Inner City
by Steven Croft Sing us softly from this ash into the vanishing point of the future, ride us like a drunk in a ragtopped convertible to the horizon, leaving any wrecked lives, our manic journey […]
Pond
by John Stanizzi 4.21.2020 11:51 AM 59 degrees Pleasures of greens – fields, new leaves, pastures of skunk cabbage, occurrences of repeated splashes and ripples just after the frogs have leapt; nicknames for plants – […]
Haiku by Hadi Panahi
Soldiers on the way, picking raspberries towards the shooting field& Hadi Panahi is a PhD student of psychology, living in Tehran, Iran. He writes poetry, in particular short poems. His work has […]
