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...
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Lea Housley
- Sep 24
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
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
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
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
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
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...
Leonardo Chung
- Sep 24
Kaleidoscope
Are you there? Please, clutch those memories of half-forgotten dreams of waves that cradle sparkled sand. Quick, listen closely and...
Michael Schwab
- Sep 24
You
August the 2nd, 2016 The wind blew hot and the windows flew open in the early morning. The same humid breeze drew in cold that night. You...
Gary Bolick
- Sep 24
A Venus Lives Just East of Reno
cacklin’ ezzie is made of earth and cotton manure and plastic roses she grows light: a garden of frying pans warped, brillo-worn and...
Lindsay Michele
- Sep 24
The Gun Cabinet
The gun cabinet was prominent, a gleaming walnut and glass display, free of dust and fingerprints, which was noteworthy as the rest of...
Jasmine Aguila
- Sep 22
Last Things Remembered
When I leave, to a land that knows not of grief, don't go looking for me. I’ve gone to a dreamy island lost between reality and eternity....
Sandra Rollins
- Sep 22
ALIGNMENT
Stars, planets, and moon, in a sky seldom clear to witness an alignment. Tonight, an alignment of Mars, Moon, Uranus Venus Jupiter and...
Kailie Knutzen
- Sep 22
Star Bathe
Howl at the moon. Percolate under the stars. Stare straight at her, unashamed. She is consistently inconsistent. Sometimes, doesn’t show...
Samuel Rucks
- Sep 22
FOOTSTEPS ON THE SNOW
On the corner of Sixth, the stars and sky turn simple, white bits in a lot of black, in the time it takes to look at them. It’s hard work...
Raymond Hoffman
- Sep 21
Watch Out
Fallen clouds Giddy Dizzy A shaken up soda People pushing Hoping for confetti Soft voice like a girl Abuse like artillery Deplorable...
Raymond Hoffman
- Sep 21
Lucky
I’m stuck Born pigeon toed With a stutter OCD—hands bleed Life a tripwire I’m a glasshouse to be peeked in Depressed at 16 Given a SSRI...
Cassidy Fesmire
- Sep 21
Wait for Me
In the waiting is where I find myself hurting the pain of arthritis attacking my joints at an age way too young for brittle bones...
Charlie Ross
- Sep 21
The Natural Complexities of Womanhood
Made it Just Fine The patio door is unlocked deep in the suburbs and my night door stays locked for a rare, shameful time. I drop myself...
Piper Williams
- Sep 21
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