Feels like I’m sinking, in the cold quicksand, of age and doubt The Ides of confusion, passed unnoticed, leaving footprints, in the warm sand, of someone’s memory Feels like I’m floating, down northern streams The scent of new… Read More ›
Anthology
Chasing Rainbows While Stuck on Narcotics (Prescription of course!) by Ariana R. Cherry
Chasing after endless arches of rainbows I spotted a little strange fairy elf who was looking for silver I asked him if he knew where the pot of gold was but he told me it had went down in… Read More ›
About Love by Hugh Burke
Two eyes; one of sea and sky, the other leaf and stone; light borne and adrift, flutter through an indifferent world’s shadows. Until, at last, now into the other, they sink. Submerging and uniting; while flanking phantoms… Read More ›
Mansplain by Adam Levon Brown
(From a queer male) Soap box mansplaination of phallic proportions Spitting objective rhetoric faster than lightning strikes root Lack of empathy manifested in constant back-talk and talking over Micro-aggression coffee stains inhabit his pale-white shirt While he rambles on… Read More ›
Green Eyed Monster by Tina Louise
Inside me lives a monster from time to time it raises it’s ugly head I’m not proud of this monster in fact I am very much ashamed I feel like I have no control over it it comes out… Read More ›
Back Against the Wall by Shelly Buttenhoff Miller
Back against the wall Tears gliding down her face Holding back sobs Not enough tissues There’s never enough Long, long day Long, long life She’s so weary Despair covers her like the fog Shrouds the deadly waterfall ahead … Read More ›
The Price of Sweet Revenge – Collaboration
The smoke plumes have withered away But at what cost? A sword, is returned to its sheath But the nights still teem with the lost War is no game I’ve been told, Yet that is the way it’s… Read More ›
Song for Karen by Don Beukes
The inner voice of a multitude your words and aching lamentation comforted generations still to soothe melting hearts liquefying emotions You once bid farewell to love claimed no-one ever cared if you should live or die would we… Read More ›
A Red Terror in the Mountains by William Wright, Jr.
A mountain flares to life With the rolling blaze Of a beastly curse Serpentine He glows with crimson scales Enraged At the steel-plated swarms In their thundering assault They are meant To spare what remains Of the… Read More ›
Trembling Toward the Sun by Scott Thomas Outlar
How much distance and difference is there between a mountain and a molehill? And how far are you determined to climb to insure your problems amount to blessings in the end? How tenacious is your will to… Read More ›
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