PABLO PICASSO by Richard Weaver
Walker Percy She was always fun. No one knew her otherwise. At least those of us
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POSITIVE by Emily Brummett
POSITIVEby Emily Brummett
A heavy waft of Sunday breakfastawakens meearlier than a routine Sunday hangoverEach smell circles my stomachand lumps slide up and down my throat,and a headache forms.Medical School.My reputation.Everything-Gone.After one drunken night.I...
WHITE CAKE by Annie Schumacher
WHITE CAKEby Annie Schumacher
White Cake
I don’t remember the taste of my wedding cake.Afterwards, we froze the top tier in mom’s garageto eat in one year, our stale sugary keepsake.It was white, of course,...
DOMINION by John Casey
DOMINIONby John Casey
deference for despair
still sodden frigid mornmuddled ubiquitous shadowsscattered, brittle leaves at footfallraven sky black thoughts dark path
restlessly listless lost soulin a funereal slate suittrudging towardthe same tired aimless trainpreordained purposeless routinesecond verse...
NOT A PRAYER by Diana Anhalt
NOT A PRAYERby Diana Anhalt
For Ethel Figueroa, the Librarian, My Heroine,
who lets me hide in the library— closed for recess—when girls in patent leather, red ribbons tied to braids,scoff at my orthopedic shoes, my...
COME THE COMET by Jeremy Gadd
COME TO ME AND LET ME HOLD YOUby Olivia Du Pont Come to me and let me hold youIn the dead of night where voices are hushedBreathe life into the night,For you are alive, you...
NIGHT HYMN by R. Nikolas Macioci
NIGHT HYMNby R. Nikolas Macioci NIGHT HYMNA prostitute saunters back and forthunder a streetlight, takes permissionfrom the night to be there. She poses,walks a few steps, poses again. Sheis a beginner, barely able to smoothout...
FINGER BY FINGER by Ashley Green
FINGER BY FINGERby Ashley Green
Phantom I
She knew something I didn’t,pale with untold prophecyand horror.You’ll stop loving me, she saidand her dilated gazeswam in grief.
I laughed and touched her thigh, warmand bare, familiar and...
ASK A CHILD, ASK A BUTTERFLY by Megha Sood
ASK A CHILD, ASK A BUTTERFLYby Megha Sood
Like an open scarred river
This cystic undulating pain speaks for itselfborn out of the muted death, it has its own semanticsa lexicon of angst and fear,it molds...
PICTURE NEGATIVE by Gabrielle Amarosa
PICTURE NEGATIVEby Gabrielle Amarosa Stars’ Crossed LoveI see her across an inky sky,Pure light,Brighter than any other.She is part of the great bear—Like a bear herself,The strongest and most fiercely beautiful.We all orient ourselves by...