Twine
By Cheryl Caesar — The Civil War has twice returned. Age and gender are an illusion. “Tell me why the ivy twines..." sing the contrapuntal
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Expressive
Writing
JOURNAL OF
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THEMES by PROMPT
We publish writing using a series of prompts as an entry point for exploring emotions, personal histories, shared truths, joy, grief, shame, and those themes that matter most to us in our hearts.
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- Oct 6, 2020
General Corona Appears in a Vision
By Jake Cosmos Aller — One day I was half napping, watching the President drone on about him being a war time president battling
- Oct 1, 2020
To-Do List
By Jackie Bluu — To-Do List (Day 5) - Wake up - Brush teeth - Eat food - Do work.
- Sep 14, 2020
Split
By Abha Das Sarma — She had waited for this very moment, Rising heartbeat and racing expectation, Now would be, the end, Of obscured nights,
- Sep 8, 2020
Walk on Water
By Jeremy Nathan Marks — I am standing in the middle of the Detroit River, my mother asking me from the Michigan shore, do you know where
- Sep 1, 2020
Look for the Silver Lining
By Nancy Levinson — even if it’s but a glint a splash of rainbow painted on a window
a DIY covid pinata you can kill with a stick
- Aug 31, 2020
Liberate Minnesota!
By Christian Garduno — Disturbance, uprising, underserved, underprivileged
rebellion, riot, disadvantaged, at-risk youth, eruption, melee
- Aug 19, 2020
My Wife Died
By Dane Ince — During Covid 19, My wife died,
Cats sat on my lap, Purring,
I went to AA in Australia, I read poetry in Berlin
- Aug 16, 2020
Both are True
By Matthew Miller — The maple is a green torch this morning, cardinal washing his beak in my coffee.
- Aug 13, 2020
Dreams
By Broeck Wahl Blumberg — In the distance, I can see and hear my people. All of them—mother, father, friends,
my beloved deceased
- Aug 12, 2020
Ruh se Roobaroo
By S. Rupsha Mitra — Allow the exterior voices whizz past like parallax. Listen, deep within a rhythm plays – slowly
- Aug 7, 2020
Masked Men
By Robert Knox — Those without masks are the least honest. You see them, pushing their way to the front
- Jul 26, 2020
I Don’t Like Needles
By Caroline Lodge — We laugh behind our masks
and reach out with our
sanitized hands. Warmth and
- Jul 6, 2020
Fear of Assault
By Dee Allen — I fear sudden weakness, I fear an assault, Worse than a hate crime, Worse than the occult
- Jun 23, 2020
Coronavirus Has Nothing on Retirement
By John C. Krieg — This Thing is Getting Serious. In all seriousness, I know this is a legitimate National Emergency
And I must do what I c
- Jun 16, 2020
I Am Angry
By Michael T. Smith — I am angry, and I do not like being who I am. I do not like
more than I can list here or
- Jun 15, 2020
Breath • 呼吸 • Respiro • نفس
By Erin Liana Johnson —
I am newly conscious of my breath. I am picturing how lbronchioles and alveoli look
- Jun 13, 2020
Rapunzel
By Sarah Henry — At a museum, the guard said I had beautiful hair. The color and curl were natural.
- Jun 11, 2020
Fossil F-Ups
By Gerard Sarnat — Perhappened portmanteau
of frenzy-fed megachurch’s hifalutin well as cavalier
- Jun 5, 2020
Zoom Fatigue
By Beth Kalikstein — Setting in is the Zoom fatigue. Since all day technology is out of my league, professionals have
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