"Birds" by James Schwartz
Musing on a long ago winter, At the Amish farm house, A bird strikes the window pane, "Ach my!" my mother exclaims, "It is a death...
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Apr 16, 20232 min read
"musings of a phoenix" by Anna Kolczynska
when i was in the eighth grade, i dressed up as a phoenix on the 31st of october, feathers saturated with marigold, tangerine, scarlet...
Apr 16, 20233 min read
"Dead Man’s Quintet" & "Family Matters" by Thomas Zimmerman
Dead Man’s Quintet i. there’s pasta water / boiling on the stove / “your poems are mush” / my darker angel murmurs / you’d think that...
Apr 16, 20231 min read
"How I’ve outlived the Queen" by Annie Cowell
(advice from my 96-year-old father - in - law) Live simply. Eat plain food; porridge made with water, banana sandwiches, soup (tinned is...
Apr 16, 20232 min read
"Shades of Cool" by Paige Johnson
“What’s more American than tax evasion?” I half-joke, drinking AriZona out of a chipped teacup. Upstairs, Uncle Sam’s third cousins mow...
Apr 16, 20231 min read
"An Address Bleeds on the Door" & "The Short Life of Spring" by Kushal Podder
An Address Bleeds On The Door Once more I've come to the door, scored a photo, asked the mystery behind- "What is it that keeps pulling...
Apr 16, 20231 min read
"Clay Women" by Courtenay Schembri Gray
Pressed within milk-bottle glass, I am the coarse rock to man. My holes are bitty with pilled glitter. I cook breakfast, lunch, and...
Apr 2, 20233 min read
"The Gaze as She Leaves the Country Club’s Annual Cocktail Party"...by Adele Evershed
The Gaze as She Leaves the Country Club’s Annual Cocktail Party They want you to think you’re aggressive or even a little hysterical But...
Apr 2, 20231 min read
"let's go down in flames" by Charlotte Amelia Poe
baby boy i love the way you fight your demons it really gives me something to sink my teeth into they say don't bite the hand that feeds...
Apr 2, 20231 min read
"HOW TO READ MY POEMS" by Alexander Mint
It takes me four or five poems To learn to read a poet. I haven’t written many yet So you and I don’t have that luxury. I mean what I say...
Mar 19, 20231 min read
"When Jellyfish Are Gone (Medusa Tanka)" by Joan García Viltró
Dive after the gale in desolate shafts of light to opaque fish stare and flurry shifty answers, They’re unaccountably gone. In yearning I...
Mar 19, 20233 min read
"home two (Frank Ocean blue)" by Mary Petralia
look at you afraid of a Plant City sangria you silly barrier island you don’t tell me what to do who do you think you are secret kudzu...
Mar 19, 20232 min read
"While" by Beth Mulcahy
You lay in bed thinking about breathing while someone in another room coughs. Someone in another house is crying because they don’t know...
Mar 19, 20231 min read
"Transpennine" by Philip Berry
stubble + lipstick mingle over fluid mouth shaping words the words you’ll sing when the band meets in a room above a pub thrust to the...
Mar 19, 20232 min read
"Coda of a Girl" by Leslie Cairns
I almost raked my hands, again, down my throat, searching for the miasma of the college story love poems I almost wrote. I inched myself...
Mar 19, 20231 min read
"Stealing Hope" by Lisa Mary Armstrong
When your father told you That your mother’s breasts were Deadly nightshade You drew a line between You and God Pale eyes Pierced the...
Mar 19, 20232 min read
"Liquid Sky" & "Only a Few Drops Left" by Ann Christine Tabaka
Liquid Sky Searing heat rises in agonizing waves, eating away at sanity. Rippled air drips down, choking out all breath. Refracted images...
Mar 19, 20231 min read
"Old Feet" and "Like Him or Not" by Julie A. Dickson
Old Feet I walk at my own pace; in no way do I run a race, no stumble, no fall, no longer quite as tall. Still I follow behind she who is...
Mar 19, 20232 min read
"Lost", "Twenties", "Muscle Memory" & "Mother’s Wish" by Lisa Thornton
Lost She was hanging clothes on the line when I asked her, next to the garden where she beat a snake to death with a hoe. She kept her...
Mar 19, 20231 min read
"on witnessing the murder of two wild pigeons" by Daniel Findell
the walk the walk the grass the sky the blue the trees the oaks the birches the talking the gravel the mud the stones the crunch the...
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