TRUTH by David Romanda
Look
You don’t want your desperation to show.Neither do I. We already share something that runs deep.We have a foundationon which to build our Palace of Joy.
Saying Sorry
Under the right circumstancesI could, in theory, be...
ORBIT by Aracelly Campo
Child
by Aracelly P. Campo (a.k.a. Bones)
Legends of the heavensTeach me the witchcraft of understandingThe Universe with a poetic verseIn the mystic arms of natureI shall journey to an Eden of harmony and magical beginningsMy...
CONTRAST by Brittany Male
Interstellar
Head shavedand rounded likeits own planet.Colors swirling in bruiseslike the storm-pocksof Jupiter’s atmosphere.Safety tethersnestled underthe skin,keeping lifewithin reaching distance.A space suitslowly leaking air,the sound becomingfamiliar untilit is no longer heard.The impending releaseof all energyof...
CHOIR OF ONE by Pavel Sfera
Lighthouses for driftwood
what if night was a curtainyou should have pulled it asidea way long time agoperhaps, you can see out without your glassesa universe of a world untouchableeven the moon needs to sleepmaybe...
SAUDADES by Daniela Vecchia
Samba
From top of floatsI throw you flowersSway my hip in the airTurn my backTurn my headAnd send you a kiss:a hurtful kiss.
Those were the last nights in NovemberIicks on my breastsDribbles in bedMayhem in...
WANTING by Lynette Thorstensen
Mythic Proportions
my mother wanted a life writ largea life of shattering revelationsa long way from where she was bornand although she found all too briefly her fifteen minutes of fameshe never recovered from this...
CHURCH BRICK by Terry Brinkman
Death by ArsenicYou heard them say death by ArsenicDreaming of Candy Corn lanky simpletonOne Two Three sillies ArithmeticHer never things list highIrishman’s new bed his Coffin PalaceInvented a lovely briber horrifyShe died Must be...
MOON GIRL by Lora Robinson
bitters and rye
I was the sandcastle dream you built by the baybrackish little Betty, jetty mouthspewing toward the only cloud in AugustSavannah sazerac, lemon rindsyour slant rhymesyour question-marked pain:it’s just a stinging in your...