SAVE FACE by Marissa Lucatorto
SAVE FACEby Marissa Lucatorto
YouYouYou who invade my dreamsAttack my mindEnrage my spiritYouWho comes to meWhen it is darkWhen no one else is aroundWhen everything is quiet, silent, stillYouWho make me think terrible thoughtsMake me...
NIGHT: A VISION by Christien Gholson
NIGHT: A VISIONby Christien Gholson
Transubstantiation
1.
Who owns the note to the house? CitiMortgage owns the note. No, it's Freddie Mac. Trace the note through the ether and you'll find it's probably in a cloud on...
LONG FORGOTTEN MISERY by Jon Benham
LONG FORGOTTEN MISERYby Jon Benham
Long forgotten misery.
They say,control, control,condone, condone.Maybe then, your progresswill have been shown.Why must the view of window panebe to blame for our struggle?When it isthe walls who beg to differ.And,...
REDGATE by Robert Wood
REDGATEby Robert Wood
REDGATE
Where carrots and cabbagesand ships hauled over sand and sound
where they remarked thatthe colour was always green, somehow, andthe mushrooms were never found
where the twilight was molassesbecause we lost our matches,
that was...
LIGHT OF DELIGHT by Catherine Rohsner
LIGHT OF DELIGHTby Catherine Rohsner
College is where life fantastically bloomsa setting of great expectations, and when you’ve lived it:Immortality, Immaturity—a gathering of the young.
Take your turn and consequences will abound:friendships, hot tea warming hands,plentiful...
SELF-BOUND by Clara Leo
SELF-BOUNDby Clara Leo
Do You Feel That?
Do you feel that?That’s how it feels to be corporeal and temporal,To have your soul picked among the billions,More than the billions,And matched with this mass of blood and...
GUITAR STATUE by Helen Hagemann
GUITAR STATUEby Helen Hagemann
Guitar Statue
A dark grey, a very dark grey, quite dark it is almost black. This statue is a composition not for practice. Ordinarily, a guitar would stand in a better place,...
YOU HAD ME AT GOODBYE by Alan Berger
YOU HAD ME AT GOODBYEby Alan Berger
All the things you left behind.Your toothbrush, your pillow, where you would rest your restless mind.The book you wrote and read out loud.The way you couldn’t blend in...
IN A PORTUGUESE FIELD by George Moore
IN A PORTUGUESE FIELDby George Moore
In a Portuguese Field
A dolmen by abandoned railsthat cross this terrible, empty fieldin lower Europe, and the gravetoppled sometime in the first centuryand near the rusted tracksstill ringing with...
PLEASURES OF THE STREET by R.T. Castleberry
PLEASURES OF THE STREETby R.T. Castleberry PLEASURES OF THE STREETStanding in the doorwaytrying to make outwho’s crying in the flamesSister says it’s redhead Judasshe can place it in the Holy WordSheriff leans from the passenger...