Drinking Coffee Alone People I have loved keep dying. They lull you into a sense of reassuring permanence then stop showing up, chatting, breathing, being. I accept no blame, never said anything overly offensive and intend to be here indefinitely. But it’s not easy to replace the quitters. Other people already have their quota of […]
Read more "Drinking Coffee Alone ~ Allan Lake"Moonphase The moon, with its unblemished predator eyes, hunts for the human heart. I steal four drifting poems— Your moonlit body floats in through the perfumed window of the sky. I. Jazz of endless desire plays at the pinnacle of the air. The world sways, unravels itself, Bubbles rise, hover, burst. The skeleton of a […]
Read more "2 POEMS by Sabyasachi Roy"Astronomy My foster father made me suck his dick when I was seven says my friend in the passenger seat as I drive the sunset hills, the car a private world. My blood thickens with compassion for her mouth and tongue used in that way. How can I now speak any words that would not […]
Read more "2 POEMS BY Carol L. Gloor"by Bob McNeil Copyright 2025 ~~~ By obtaining Bob McNeil’s book (Flexible Press) for a mere $18.00, you can help the homeless.
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Read more "Dance of the Butterflies ~ Jeff Lewis"Easy It’s easy to walk into the ocean – to gamble your last dime to go crazy when the screaming gets too loud – but it’s practically impossible to love what’s good for you ~~~ Life savers We’ve been trying to save each other since the day we met We fought a thousand fires and […]
Read more "2 poems by Pat Raia"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"Listening to Jazz in Newport Beach (Remembering the Holocaust) All the beautiful clothes In a pile on the floor Some beginning to wear A thread loose, color fading A piece of hair Of living human beings They watch and listen to the jazz Look closer Prettiness gone, fading too Eyeglasses, teeth, possessions Become just cracks […]
Read more "Renee Ebert ~ Listening to Jazz in Newport Beach (Remembering the Holocaust)"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 […]
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