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 […]
Tag: depression
The Quiet
by Karen Shepard I take it personally, braid it into my hair, tie it around my index finger so that I don’t forget, put it in my shoe to pain my every step, sprinkle a […]
Freshman
by Epiphany Ferrell It occurred to Marion that she’d been lying in bed quite a long time. At first she’d watched the shadow from the windowpane move up the wall, across the ceiling, down the […]
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— […]
One Precious Stone
by Seth Jani No more do the animals rout in darkness. They go before us blind and ecstatic, carrying their primal secrets. We lose everything with their power. The shine of otherness is our only […]
A Quiet House
by Sarah Mackey Kirby I decided when I grew up, I’d have a quiet house. Where snapping wind-tapped twigs and magnolia leaves traced open window. Where vitriol didn’t bleed through walls, and slammed back doorsdid […]
in the end, who are we but little women fused and accumulated and ready to snap apart from the whole of ourselves like chocolate squares
by Amanda Pendley there are envelope poems fistfuls of you in my hands blown away only half on purpose and half by the wind held in and let out like a child’s emission of defeat […]
Grief Fruits by M.L. Rengots
For Cody, for me RECIPE FOR DEAD BROWNIES Buy a box of brownie mix. Set aside the ingredients. Fill the empty box with dirt. Bury the box. Combine ingredients above your brownie box grave. SONG […]
Haiku on Grief
by Grace Gilbert i. the mind is a room, &&&&&a child against the window listening for snow ii. drowned boy, still missing: &&&&&smooth stone in god’s deep pocket this wet, joyless thing iii. a sunken […]
