by Sarah Marquez I wonder when it will be my turn to introduce my shadow to the family, my mama in her ideal world– of good men versus bad men, us versus them. Or when […]
literary + art magazine
Tag: sadness
From Being Stalingrad to Nothingness
by Brett Stout After she annexed her existence and the Crimea, confessions as oxymoron’s were written in dead languages on blank Post-It Notes left in empty carriages as the broken dams filled with neon ghetto […]
To Dennis
by Madison Kalia I remember you. You were the first I knew to die I still have your photos, maybe even the letters The picture of the flowers tucked in the frame of my mirror […]
Poem by Simon Perchik
To remind you how long before white becomes invisible –you fold this dish cloth over and over as if each splash is wiped with a cry making room the way an old love song turns […]
Apocrypha
by RC deWinter my life is a grimoire scribed in invisible ink on vellum that crumbles at a touch unreadable and even if it were you wouldn’t want to a history of wrong choice attributable […]
A Violin in the Woods
by Andy Betz A wooden violin awoke one morning in the woods. He still retained both bow and strings and felt fairly confident his predicament was merely temporary. Not being able to produce music in […]
Unreachable
by Paul Robert Mullen the continents have become small strides i have trembled upon peaks breathed the darkness of lairs untouched witnessed the peace of dawn skimming dampness off the clouds with wings bound […]
