Autumn by Triston Dabney
Again it is autumn, And already, the orioles have learned Of their wings and have motioned For warmer skies. All the while, the maples...
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- 2 days ago
- 1 min
] Lifing Journal [] 44822 [ by J. Parker Marvin
Gray fog wetting gray stone grayer The romanticism of concrete Arthritic knees brittle over the unstraying patterns They are dictators...
- 7 days ago
- 1 min
Carry Water, Carry Sound (in key of D minor) by Meredith MacLeod Davidson
The table held the ghost in her blue legs in her sanded surface the ghost tripped tenuous slumber the hold of wood still unsummoned...
- Nov 23
- 2 min
When You Stopped Speaking To Me by Dana Kinsey
what you really wanted /was for me to stop speaking / to you / but I didn’t /understand at first / thought maybe you were tired / from...
- Nov 11
- 1 min
rough bone whine by Calum Robertson
grandaddy keeps a coyote skull on his desk shot him in fortyfive im not allowed to touch it except one christmas i caught grandaddy...
- Oct 7
- 1 min
Just Between Gravity [ To R ] by H. E. Riddleton
Not so carefully, he is alive, and I am too— Morton salt of these kayaking fears, we have rowed so far to reach this kitchen. One of us...
- Oct 7
- 1 min
Steel Man by Alan Keith
Ripped jeans, steel toes. The Son my Father would love rides the subway half asleep in the early morning. Veiny hands, small cuts, paint...
- Oct 7
- 1 min
412.295.3207 by Kari Martindale
A pushbutton phone, bright pink, like the bathroom tiles and the milkshake counter. It all started during the days when phones were...
- Sep 11
- 2 min
Find the joy by Madeira Miller
Turn over the mossiest rock and look for it there. It might be hiding in the tall grasses by the murky, emerald pond or sprinkled in the...
- Sep 8
- 1 min
Amid Blossoms by William Blackburn
Wave after cresting wave, upon tree limbs beached As sunset rays impart last dimming of this day Orpheus and his orchestra in festive...
- Sep 7
- 1 min
Estee Lauder All Day Coverage by Courtney Moody
No one can color-match my complexion. No setting spray can contain the garden of my soul. Daisies and forget-me-nots and pansies peek...
- Sep 7
- 1 min
Floral Tribute by Dianne Thomas
Feeling poetic on a rainy afternoon and seeking to borrow inspiration I took a dusty volume of Shelly, Keats and Byron from the shelf...
- Sep 6
- 2 min
Star Furnace by Priya Sirohi
Every atom of this was made in the nuclear burn of the first stars. A handful of dried mushrooms Moss Leaves bent at every angle a tree...
- Sep 5
- 1 min
Thirsty for Swallows by Mark Strohschein
The field and I found ourselves lonely and lachrymose on the lane when, on cue, a swallow from a disused red stable sliced through salty...
- Sep 5
- 1 min
Revelations by Whitney Walters
I never envisioned myself as the mother stopping in the drainage ditch at twilight paused by the sight of Milkweed pods cracked open,...
- Sep 5
- 1 min
Duck Weed by Rebecca Thrush
Under this greened curtain swims seven frogs and worlds unseen. We break the surface tension, but still we buzz. Even on this bench, the...
- Sep 4
- 1 min
The Difference Is by James B. Nicola
When you limp, or walk with a tattered sole on one shoe, or proceed in this wide world uneven due to some war wound or pain, your gait...
- Sep 4
- 1 min
Raisinets I Forgot Were In My Glovebox by Luke Janicki
I noticed the way in which paper will fold itself into curious positions when there is no one to tend it and the memoranda inscribed...
- Sep 3
- 1 min
Uncloud by Allissa Sandefur
Through the cloud-water, you look at me as if you’re thinking of asking me to marry you again. You, the grand phantom of my dreams: who...
- Sep 3
- 1 min
Suburban Multiverse by Olivia Burgess
Please wait in your car while I fumble paws unlocking the front door and smile, orientated reflex angular as you drive off into the next...
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