Calendar Teetheach month bitesa little harderjanuary gnawed at hopefebruary kissed the woundmarch spatapril laughed with blood in its teethmay bloomed but only with weedsjune forgot how to rainjuly choked on heat and old secretsaugust waited by the windowcounting how many times no one cameseptember showed up late and tiredwith cracked lips and bruised handsoctober whispered […]
Read more "3 POEMS by Ivan Ndoma-Egba"The Numerous Crucifixions of One Man One Lamb of a Man Often let his body’s aspects reset Into whatever the biased And calloused despised. Sometimes the changes Were ethnical, Racial or sexual. Many thought The Lamb of a Man was harmful. Bearing RED hatefulness, WHITE supremacists Had a drought in their BLUE eyes When they […]
Read more "The Numerous Crucifixions of One Man ~ Bob MCNEIL"IT’S TIME By Jenniffer Seward and Jessica Free It was close to midnight. Barely a sliver of moonlight peeked out through the clouds. Footsteps pounded on the cracked pavement ascending the rocky path toward the cemetery. As the footsteps approached the rusty wrought iron fence, dark shapes could be made out of the shadows as […]
Read more "IT’S TIME — HORROR FLASH BY 2 TEENS IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEW MEXICO"Ladybirds are god Picking up the seeds of shasta daisies – I see – a preponderance of ladybirds – materialising in between – my fingers – once I send one off on its celestial wings – I rudely awaken – more – from their nap – and they start oozing into the world – in […]
Read more "Míša Hejná ~ Ladybirds are god"Chem 342 Thermodynamics homework. 1:37am in the second living room. We up late. We forgot the date. We read the rate. We can’t approximate. We separate motions. We contemplate devotions. We partially derive. We finally nosedive. We calculate free energy. We succumb to lethargy. We plot and scheme. We got a 73. Styled from “We […]
Read more "Sebastião Martin ~ CHEM 342"I am Joaquín I am Joaquín lost in a world of confusion, Caught up in a whirl of a gringo society, Confused by the rules, Scorned by attitudes, Suppressed by manipulations And destroyed by modern society. My fathers have lost the economic battle and won the struggle of cultural survival. And now! I […]
Read more "Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzales ~ Yo Soy Joaquín / I Am Joaquín"I. How do you pack if your suitcase is suddenly just your own without your sister coming along to crowd the other half? You have space for sweaters, a coat, your anxiety, a few more pairs of pants, and the extra money your parents tuck into the suitcase’s lining for you, but the extra room […]
Read more "4 POEMS FROM Shauri Cherie"From the public employee protecting trees For Mr. Good of Northeast Columbus Dear Mr. Good, Of the 149 comments we received, yours was the one that made me laugh aloud. How could you have known that the “meddling parasitic bureaucrat” to read your words truly will “wax poetic about tree policy”? I know others are […]
Read more "Rosalie Hendon ~ From the public employee protecting trees"FiguresIt’s January so that means nothing breathes. I’m not sure if I am breathing.I don’t know whose breath is fogging the window pane.
Read more "Esther Sadoff ~ FIGURES"KATHE KRUSE STELLA DOLL, VERIFIES NO U-TURN Hitler Youth master tutors municipal college. A pantomime of liberalism outrages. Baader-Mienhoff deliver her flesh-and-blood vocation. Pogo stick with Luger, disinfects classroom. ~~~ BUCKAROO! TENSES Flags ripple. Argentina’s Consulate is imposing, pompous. Nail bomb serene in rear hooves anticipates kick. Prairie Fire counterfeit sightseeing. National anthem goes unsung. […]
Read more "3 POEMS BY Christopher Barnes"
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