By: Walter Weinschenk “Yesterday, I walked along the empty corridor that lies behind my consciousness and opened up a door – And what I...

By: Lee Landau [ the poet consoles herself] All night I wept tears searing my face— not the body, not sleep interfered. “Not the dog...

By; Derek Thomas Dew Falling denser. Smoke trees with trees. Winter comes to a balloon a town is unable to chase. Again, what isn’t you...

By: Anne Kwok Aftermath of a Horror Film This scene ends with a woman walking into the sea & you look sideways at my reaction– as if I’ve...

By: Michael Lasater Locked Down You sit in a room, subtracted, stranded – a knot of words dreamt in fractured sleep. You avoid risk,...

By: Rasha Alduwaisan Finger Spaces abirdinapot words need to breathe my love they need space try again this...

By: Jonathan Mundell my brother and Dave carry a canoe to the lake— the underside in the sun and light explodes across the silver like...

By: Grace Miskovsky it happens more from inside a colored glass lightbulb it happens more when venus has risen over an ombre sky when the...

By: Shon Mapp Find me on the ocean floor, undulating against marine tides. Is this the birthplace of invisibility? Where life is only an...

By: M.J. Stratton Eros (Adorer/ L’amour) I there is a moon thickening crooning gripping along my neck the womb where I grow ...

By: Phil Carson Reine de l’Acool, My Queen Southern Comfort. Beautiful, Naked, mute, & motionless. Many place their lips on yours & drink...

By: Ann Pedone there are these times when the world insists on making meaning don’t turn this into an abstraction my hand down here...

By: Bryan Damien Nichols Pantoum for Middle Age When darkness crowns the dwindling life What’s left for us is lesser light. We pray for...

By: Marlene Woods From now on I shall make love to you on paper, through my verses because your disposition to love me and my patience...

By: Luke Smith-Adams An eclipse was scheduled for tonight. I wrote the date down. It has not as yet arrived. My understanding is these...

By: Dana Roark solo my other half is facedown all gin slumped beside me and i want nothing to do with him, or us but outside is a pink...

By: Barry Roth Hypothesis Testing Time slowing down to a sort of cactus, I reduce to the size of an eye-beam shooting down the tube of my...

By: Sierra Ellison like the first time, but her skin has grown too thick, so he switches to the larger needle and the pain smears across...

By: Sara Gilbert TikTok says only people with ADHD un-focus their eyes at will. My eyes ease, bleary blue-light spreads for several...

By: Michael Waterson Displaying O’Keeffe’s flower paintings to eighth graders, saying, … resembling the female creative principle, or …...

By: Emily Kingery Grief It didn’t have teeth, at first, and I held nothing in my palms to feed it in the yard. A breeze twisted my...

By: Richard Widerkehr Taking Him Home - after reading Lynn Emanuel’s Then Suddenly Stay put, you call to your dead father. You like the...

By: Landon Smith The City Smells Like a Mint and Band-aids The soil has cried for so long that we can feel it in our bones when it’s...

By: Aliyah Curry Things that pop in my mind at (insert time) Before the sexual assault, we went to a reptile convention, pricing bearded...