[caption id="attachment_576" align="alignnone" width="1080"]Poetry can take time. Poetry needs silence. Taking breaks and allowing yourself to calibrate and feel and live between the words and lines makes all the difference. You are a poet even when you aren't "writing."[/caption]
Signing Forms
by Catherine Zickgraf That December, home from school, I’d finish my shift at 3 a.m. My hands cracked gripping the wheel. My breath froze in my lungs I though they’d turn to stone. The houses, […]
Postpartum
by Catherine Zickgraf Paper neighbors drape my couch. They hold the baby, bake casseroles I can’t taste. I nibble when he sleeps or sleep when he naps after I’ve boiled the bottles and washed some […]
Eighth Grade
by Catherine Zickgraf We were empty-eyed cinder blocks, ringed keys unlocking the doorknobs. Among junior high’s sleepy congregation, an audience of our class’s generation, only some of us showed up praised and amen-ed. School taught […]
Two Poems
by J.S. MacLean Evolution The scientists said trees grow, I watched one awhile and no they do not. Invisible Minority They are not ghosts that prowl the earth down lanes of truth with greed for […]
Two Poems
by Heidi Slettedahl Loneliness Loneliness a white sheet drawn over me at night, my naked body unaccustomed to the weight River’s Edge I’ve never swum in a river for fear of tides and my dead […]
[caption id="attachment_media-10" align="alignnone" width="1080"]If you’re in the position to help others…do it.[/caption]
Two Haikus
by Gerard Sarnat & Oedipal Inadequate dad’s persona of perfection is a projectile. Have Faith? Canon, curse, sermon, tongues, discourse, dharma, bible — ishkabibble … artist: alis laura Gerard Sarnat is a physician who’s […]
She Said
by Lauren Bender quickly, the rules of shacking up in a she shed. turn away from your real house like others turn away from satan, sparkling with distaste. display your set of chairs and their […]
The Best You Can Do
by Lauren Bender Her sweater takes your hand without bite, her head lifts to watch you dispense your charity. Her eye peels your skin away, and your insides scrunch up and then fold in on […]
