TREE LULLABY
Once I climbed a towering cotton silk tree. It was spring and the tree was ablaze with uncountable dark red flowers as if ichor flowing...
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M. Zaman
- Feb 1, 2021
Cherub’s Fallowed Morning
(Southern Celestial Hemisphere) His face aching, emotionless and unflinching, he declared, 'my parents are getting a divorce'. Mother...
Ulrikka Haveron
- Sep 29, 2020
The Professor
It was an honor to be chosen.
Ryan Rahman
- Sep 29, 2020
Spacefarer
Ryan Rahman On this interstellar journey Through the infinite cosmos Regret comes speeding past. Out here in the vast emptiness,...
Kate MacDonald
- Sep 27, 2020
My Way
ULTIMATUM When I said I don't want to be alone That it's not enough just speaking on the phone Somehow I felt your face in my hands, I...
Stuart Terman
- Sep 27, 2020
EREV VALENTINE’S DAY
It’s the evening before Valentine’s Day I’m sitting here at home. Tonight I’m going to see you, momentarily I’m alone. Talented? Good...
Jo Clark
- Sep 27, 2020
Beacon
By Jo Clark
Bill Garten
- Feb 11, 2020
Can't Sleep
Bill Garten I go for a walk in my neighborhood at 2am with the flashlight of insomnia seeing other house lights on - computer and...
Zachery Rahn
- Dec 8, 2019
Ode to the Pulpit
By Zachery Rahn We go down in Georgia forests deer can’t live in, on all four wheelers we ride until dusk, blow cattails like dandelions....
Corbin Wamble
- Dec 4, 2019
January
By Corbin Wamble It's often said that math is the language that binds the universe, prose the tongue of the common man, poetry merely...
Melinda Canny
- Dec 4, 2019
First Loves
By Melinda Canny I remember my first love. The way his cologne smelled, how his strawberry-blond hair glittered in the sunlight, when it...
David McAllister
- Dec 4, 2019
Stardust: The Second Story
By David McAllister he said all it takes is a sprinkle for you to leave this world behind a sprinkle of stardust to explore the stars...
Sara Jhong
- Dec 4, 2019
What Is and What Should Never Be, Letters To New York City
By Sara Jhong The year is 1950—my grandfather is thirteen and if he does not make the train in the next seven and a half minutes, he will...
David McAllister
- Dec 3, 2019
LoveStory
By David McAllister outer space seems always empty when you are an asteroid built with a soul of ice / I drift through blindness never...
Carlana Perla
- Dec 3, 2019
Nostalgia Child
By Carlana Perla What is it about the past that keeps coming to you in the loneliness of dawn? Or in the glimpse of sunlight escaping...
Alexandra Smereka
- Dec 3, 2019
On Becoming Strangers
By Alexandra Smereka Prisoner of your murmur, honey, my swollen tongue tingles as I take deep breaths into the sea foam and again once...
Alexandra Smereka
- Dec 3, 2019
Daylight Savings Time
By Alexandra Smereka When words fall like leaves from your lips I know the air is about to grow colder, the shadows longer, our days...
Alexandra Smereka
- Dec 3, 2019
Before the flood
By Alexandra Smereka If I am made of so much water, why don’t I evaporate under your heated gaze? Drip away until all that is left of me...
Alexandra Smereka
- Dec 3, 2019
This Savage Stardust
By Alexandra Smereka We’ve done this all before, haven’t we? Spun around the swirling stars in our eyes, the galaxy in your chest,...
Kim Golubev
- Dec 3, 2019
The Broken Friendship
By Kim Golubev We are the past men We are the present men we are lost men. We are men who lost their merit instead of past and present...