EQUUS by Fara Spence
Equus.
We called him Equus, a black horse bucking inside a desert corral because he wouldn’t be broken. He was still feral, they said. Stubborn as a mule. Later...
NEAP SONG by Daniel King
Alnitak
Kalki will come. Hundreds of years must pass.Kalki will come. We wait.
Trapped we crave our son The far stars callLocked in local space Those...
TO OUTLAST by Michele Parker Randall
To Outlast
The last cigarette clutched at my fingers, stretchedmy lungs, and drew smoke into me, hide-n-seek-
style. It’s been a while; my doctors tell me...
I PRETEND NOT TO LOVE YOU by Viviana Viviani, Translated by Giuliana Barile, Angela...
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Fingo di non amarti by Viviana Viviani
Fingo di non amartirispondo tarditi faccio aspettaremi sento scaltrase sbaglio appostail nome dell’altramostro indifferenzadistrazione e assenzadico: “stiamo insiemefinché...
I WILL BE YOUR HERO by April McDermott
"I Will Be Your Hero"Fate gives us all pieces to make a puzzle of our life,They show us our love, our happiness, our strife.I had enough pieces for my own work of...
AUBADE by Sofia Lemay
Aubade
Deep in the thick of darknessOf the darkest nightStars laboring to shineEven through the veil of blacknessThe moon merely a sliver of lightNot strong enough to illuminateThe pathOf...
CREATE A PLAYLIST FOR THE PERSON YOU USED TO BE by Jess Burnquist
Create a Playlist for the Person You Used to Be
It’s important to do this aloneon a partially cloudy day whennostalgia seeps its lightthough blinds in thinslices of bright...
AWE by Bernadette Dickenson
Gilded words spill from her lips caressing me beckoning me to immerse myself in her pain
I have no choice already I am swimming upstream with her sinking beneath...
PRIDE PARADE by James Orrock
Standley Chasm to Trephina Gorge, aerial view
Sun glissades a minute crack in timeas cycads fizz in slotted space andmilk-smooth dolerite boulders incubatein the yoked light and shade;from Cain...
THE HUMAN PERSONIFIED by Michael L. Correia
THE HUMAN PERSONIFIED
I stand meditatingAt the knotOn my Kentucky cherry wood antique tableCirca Andy JacksonIt looked like the image of an elderlyAmerican statesman of that dayHe sports darkened...
