The Elephant & The Whale
The Earth’s two greatest beings are kindred kings, exceptions one grazing without hooves one breathing without gills They spout They...
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Zach Zajac
- Jul 7
In Our Father's House
In our father's house A painting of the Virgin hangs Quiet and lopsided Above the hole where fist met wall. Zach Zajac is a writer/failed...
Dina Rothschild
- Jul 7
A Tribal Chief in My Life
In 1977, at age 41, I went to India as a WHO consultant to train physicians to survey research on chronic illnesses and disabilities in...
Jessica Crowley
- Jul 7
amber
Amber coat my spine, drip into strands of dark brown hair, wash my mind, excavate dark thoughts caught in cobwebs, seep into bone white...
Andrew Sorokowski
- Jul 7
Writer’s Retreat
I’ve given up the coffee and the clatter, The newspapers on poles, the measured chatter, Where one receives, upon discreet request, A pen...
Taunja Thomson
- Jul 7
Moonlight is sculpture—
can you see that orb sitting atop May’s spiderwort, a mobile moved by midnight slowly slowly, slowly sailing from dusk to sunrise, a...
Ada Pendill
- Jul 7
Ever More Stars
I have known you Like a mountain knows the sky. Together we are touch and spine And no star has been on fire Nor has a river cried For as...
Jake Rogers
- Jul 7
A Glimpse of Oblivion
Blooming star, ancient beacon of beyond, burning years upon centuries ago, shining down and arriving now, soon or sooner to be gone. Soon...
Susan Luton
- Jul 7
ASTRONOMY LESSON
Because the night was cold, we could see more of the stars through the veil of refinery haze and we nestled each other in blankets you...
Mark Calogero
- Jul 7
Heartbreak is a Monopoly Game
I became that jilted, purple Mediterranean Avenue,
(Cheap and unwanted).
Emily Chamichyan
- Jul 7
star girl
i. Jars of dust sit atop my shelves, remains of burnt stars, fallen stars, stolen from the sky, taken down from their rooftop stage, left...
Kara Laurene Pernicano
- Jul 7
dear lover of daft punk, it’s not about mars, we are galaxy bound:
have you ever wanted to go to outer space? as a child, i used to imagine what it’d be like to be an astronaut floating, unafraid of...
Kara Laurene Pernicano
- Jul 7
Revelries in the Galaxy of Love
~After Kandinsky’s Around the Circle The all-seeing eye is drawn ever to the city like a bird with a rutter at sea in the celestial...
A.J. Brown
- Sep 24, 2023
The Ballad of Orpheus and Eurydice
I was born inside a burning house I have known flame, as breath as air, the itch of curling inward– Fire is hunger it devours births the...
Lea Housley
- Sep 24, 2023
Death of Venus
I wonder if she’s ever noticed how people talk to her art through their eyes. The first girl that loved me told me my body looked like a...
C.W. Arnim
- Sep 24, 2023
The Man Who Liked Kipling
I met Mr. Cooper as a result of the occurrence of a couple of events over which I had no control whatsoever. The first of these...
Hollie Ziskind
- Sep 24, 2023
Night Waits for Us All
Tell me I’m beautiful until I can tell myself, while my green eyes hold scars that match the pink ones in my heart Sticky adhesions in...
Lauren Childs
- Sep 24, 2023
Nature Demands
I scoured the fields for purple flowers Tulips that were fragrant of the Spring in Colorado I searched for the butterflies that flapped...
Sterling Warner
- Sep 24, 2023
Quills Unperturbed
In a dearth of mud shrimp, sea bass, and perch, herons pick plumage for parasitic hosts: vagabond ticks screwed into flesh between...
Roger Craik
- Sep 24, 2023
VINCENT’S SWIRL OF STARS UNPAINTED
Your self-torn life, drawn to paint. A narrow sunlit wooden room where all a man need do is lie upon his single bed beneath the...
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