

ENDLESS NIGHT
By Benjamin-Bede Benorie — During that extended darkness, I understood something fundamental about dignity. Why my work insists on harm reduction.
Jun 2


Nature's Keeper
By Hector Rodriguez — He sat peacefully on a bench, gazing at the stream. Like a framed landscape, he contemplated nature’s art. The keeper
May 15


The Sacker of Cities
By Daniel J. Davis — My sweet Penelope waited for me. That's more than some men can say. She waited while I took my time coming home. I am still finding my way.
Apr 27


Uncivilized II
By Gary Beck — After high school graduation, the excitement of prom night, we sent them to a foreign land where they toughened up fast, or died.
Apr 10


Sleeping Man Under Oak Tree: A Self Portrait
By John Grey — Every moment is another green leaf, a surprise at how much life there is in you, as a surge of wind ruffles your foliage from shadow to sky.
Mar 2


In My Last Green Garden
By Sheila Beth deShields — Say his cancer returns. Say a pandemic destroys the health of family and friends. Say you are left alone and climate changes have
Feb 24


SACRED COOKING IN THE LOTUS GARDEN
By Joshua Meander — She alone peels slowly on pastoral scene. Zen-like she moves. Fairytale Chinese pixie farms, chops, and cooks meshed in a lotus garden
Feb 6


Blissful High
By Michael Colon — Innocence is coddled by the naivety of what has happened. Precious moments from what seemed like eons ago float around me
Jan 7


Old apple tree
By Colin Ian Jeffery — There is an apple tree at the bottom of the garden where my brother and I once played, swinging on branches, climbing high and low.
Dec 10, 2025




