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...
THE DRINKING POEM by Jesse Domingos
THE DRINKING POEMby Jesse Domingos
What’s In a Name
Who was he?The man I am named after, Jesse.A king, a warrior?No,
A shepherd with seven children.What happen to your sons? Of your daughters?Were you there as they...
WHO IS SHE? by Magdalena Garcia
WHO IS SHE?by Magdalena Garcia
Who Is She
Don’t you see that she doesn’t care about you like me but still you love her more than me, how could that be?She shows you no love in...
SAND CRABS by Melinda Giordano
SAND CRABSby Melinda Giordano
Sand Crabs
The salt-sparkled sandDrummed with lifeBeneath the yielding crust.And the caverns and tunnels,Blind and subterranean,Hid from the inconvenient seaThat drew closer With untimely precocious tides.A persistent visitor,It crashed and pounded with a...
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...
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,...
FILE NUMBER THIRTY-ONE by Ken W. Simpson
FILE NUMBER THIRTY-ONEby Ken Simpson
Drowning
Shadows of familiar facesappear in dreamsas memoriesempty of empathybefore disappearing.
The Vanity of Disbelief
The lure of lunacybeckons mindsdeprived of honestyexploited by mythsamd liesabout patriotismparadise and pride.
ELVIS by Gayle Compton
ELVISby Gayle Compton
Elvis
The whole world's gone crazy!Gone hog wild over Elvis Presley and thatold sinful rock and roll!Daddy slams his big coal miner's fiston the supper tablesloshing red rot Krogers Spotlight coffeeall over Mother's...
STARS by Cecilia Devine
STARSby Cecilia Devine
AugustWhat would you thinkIf I told youI dreamt ofyour open-mouthed kisses on my neckAndyour touch against my leg-stained with the Redwood Earth?You and I hidden altogether byA canopy of trees.I could have...
HAIKU BETWEEN THE EARTH AND THE STARS by David Boyer
HAIKU BETWEEN THE EARTH AND THE STARSby David Boyer Haiku Between the Earth and the Starsmilk splash in coffee the weather report for Jupiterforest at dawn when she lied like a kaleidoscopeto be as many...