M. ZamanApr 18, 2021TREE LULLABYOnce I climbed a towering cotton silk tree. It was spring and the tree was ablaze with uncountable dark red flowers as if ichor flowing...
M. ZamanFeb 2, 2021Cherub’s Fallowed Morning(Southern Celestial Hemisphere) His face aching, emotionless and unflinching, he declared, 'my parents are getting a divorce'. Mother...
Ryan RahmanSep 30, 2020Spacefarer Ryan Rahman On this interstellar journey Through the infinite cosmos Regret comes speeding past. Out here in the vast emptiness,...
Kate MacDonald Sep 28, 2020My WayULTIMATUM 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 TermanSep 28, 2020EREV VALENTINE’S DAYIt’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...
Bill GartenFeb 11, 2020Can't SleepBill Garten I go for a walk in my neighborhood at 2am with the flashlight of insomnia seeing other house lights on - computer and...
Zachery RahnDec 8, 2019Ode to the PulpitBy 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, 2019JanuaryBy 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 CannyDec 4, 2019First LovesBy Melinda Canny I remember my first love. The way his cologne smelled, how his strawberry-blond hair glittered in the sunlight, when it...
David McAllisterDec 4, 2019Stardust: The Second StoryBy 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 JhongDec 4, 2019What Is and What Should Never Be, Letters To New York CityBy 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 McAllisterDec 3, 2019LoveStoryBy David McAllister outer space seems always empty when you are an asteroid built with a soul of ice / I drift through blindness never...
Carlana PerlaDec 3, 2019Nostalgia ChildBy 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 SmerekaDec 3, 2019On Becoming StrangersBy Alexandra Smereka Prisoner of your murmur, honey, my swollen tongue tingles as I take deep breaths into the sea foam and again once...
Alexandra SmerekaDec 3, 2019Daylight Savings TimeBy 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 SmerekaDec 3, 2019Before the floodBy 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 SmerekaDec 3, 2019This Savage StardustBy 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 GolubevDec 3, 2019The Broken FriendshipBy 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...