"The Gunks" by Ivor Daniel
On the Shawangunk Mountains behind the Correctional Facility, I trip on boulders I cannot see in low luxurious slanting sunlight....
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- Feb 5
- 1 min
"Resiliency" by James B. Nicola
e s i A proportioned r after a d i v e re quires a bit of an an gle to get ho me James B. Nicola’s poetry has appeared internationally in...
- Feb 5
- 1 min
"Transhumanist" by Padm Nabh Trivedi
Each Diwali, Amma would light up Small earthen lamps From a big one, And ask us to place at Everywhere we have a connection with: The...
- Feb 5
- 3 min
"We Swayed Furtively" & "Monga-mish" by Cid Galicia
We Swayed Furtively I You were a shadow of rhythm In the arms, song, and body Of another man. So from a distance, I became him In order...
- Feb 5
- 2 min
"the sweet spot", "unboxed:", "violent parasomnia", & "not being Kate Bush" by Jane Ayres
the sweet spot she weeps & creaks into the ooze & creep & scrape & crushing crackle of whenever trim / shape / slice / sculpt to feed ...
- Feb 5
- 2 min
"put a laurel wreath around my neck" by Nicholas Barnes
pills got bigger: ten to twenty milligrams. now they’re horsesized. change in dosage prompted by a cry for help. by a secret told to my...
- Jan 22
- 1 min
"To The Snowman" by Tim Moder
Your scuffed, unruly top hat has settled onto an adequately round head. Your body leans left, but not that smile. Small steady hands have...
- Jan 22
- 1 min
"At Lace Mill Pond" by Abigail Myers
I looked out at the half frozen lake. How lovely to be here without you: no stones or pinecones breaking the crust of ice and disturbing...
- Jan 22
- 1 min
"The Garden" by Katy Naylor
We choose our words with care. The garden is still and honeysuckle-sweet again, and the evening shade shadows our faces. We cradle our...
- Jan 22
- 1 min
"last year's winterkill" by Jona L. Pedersen
I am the rough fish that escaped the winterkill. somewhere, at the bottom of the lake the light reached me, trickling through a hole in...
- Jan 22
- 1 min
"They Once Met Young Elvis at the Dessau Dance Hall" by Jess Levens
He asked her out in junior high, and they were inseparable for seventy-one years—he loved her thoughtfully and sincerely. Dementia had...
- Jan 22
- 1 min
"The Confectioner" by Francesca Leader
His last name was Sugar. At least that’s what I thought, until he wrote the characters on a napkin, and showed me, with his grass-fluid...
- Jan 22
- 1 min
"The Black Widow" by Courtenay Schembri Gray
How is it up there in your rectory of plated gold? Your arms—torn spaghetti strings—reach down to disturb the guts of what you’ve...
- Jan 22
- 1 min
"The Ice Knife" by Jane Zwart
An impractical weapon: it drips, but never gore, and its birchwood hilt will hardly fill a child’s hand. I cannot eat a popsicle, though—...
- Jan 22
- 1 min
"you are cold" by Constance Bacchus
whiteout near waterville on the way to work, on the way home, a tunnel the road has disappeared, the snow ruts have smoothed & cold, you...
- Jan 22
- 2 min
"Aisle Three" by Karen Grose
I plod down the street to the corner a walker as my guide careful to navigate the cracks on the sidewalk, heat bouncing off the pavement....
- Jan 22
- 1 min
"A New Year" by Alison Lubar
The difference in mourning and morning is you. Dawn takes away anything “our”s, transforms it to “or,” a choice between two, as usual....
- Jan 22
- 1 min
"Spring" by Allison Thung
The flakes of your love keep landing on my bare skin and dissolving before I can collate them. Two clutches I’ve salvaged are already...
- Jan 22
- 1 min
"January" by Robert Allen
the sun’s a long yellow scarf pull it down to dress warm for the chill
- Jan 8
- 5 min
"Most Days, Dystonia is a Background Hum", "Composite Sketch" & "Just a Bird" by Margaret King
Most Days, Dystonia is a Background Hum Most days, dystonia is a constant background hum, Others, a Beethoven symphony But episodically,...
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