My Morning Bird Song
By Áine Greaney — Naming and loving. They’re not the same thing. Over the years, I’ve had a gazillion identifiers. I’ve been Alien Resident Number 123 or
Nov 30, 2025
Pancakes
By Craig Kirchner — I’m 75 today, having a little trouble waking up, getting up, walking. Finally make it to the Keurig and decide to breakfast. The word goes back
Nov 18, 2025
Charcoal and Paper
By Riis Porter — I grab a piece of blank white paper. The images I try to describe are shapeless. Where is my vision? I must shatter my mind to find the true
Oct 24, 2025
TODAY I AM
By Howard Osborne — As of yesterday, I wasn’t anybody. No identity,yet not even an entity. Still to emerge from dark obscurity that most think it's a strange
Oct 13, 2025
Drawing A Blank
By Lynn White — First I drew a blank, an empty profile, empty as I felt though I knew that I didn't suit emptiness and emptiness didn't suit me and that I
Aug 4, 2025
#reality
By Brendan Dawson — How I could get curious about sound bites found among like-button friends hidden in the mega bits in the fringes of the Internet? I feel
Jul 13, 2025
the convict child
By Yuna Kang — Before the "curiosity" of fools, before the schooling of fish, before the rose grew thorns. Maybe she wasn't a convict? Maybe she wasn't stupid?
Jun 9, 2025
Can I be more than this or that?
By James Gering — After three score years, my identity ought to be statue solid, much on show, to show, mantle-piece piled high with accomplishments,
May 12, 2025
Museum Relic
By Duane Anderson — My portrait may not be found in any art gallery, but instead, a picture of me can be found in a dark tavern, my nose located in the center
May 7, 2025
I am Black
By Brenda Bell-McAdams — I am Black, undeniably, but beautiful? Well, I don't know. If the beauty of blackness is more a feeling than a knowing, then today
May 1, 2025
My Computer wants to 'Verify if I am human'
By Doug Holder — This is what my computer tells me. Is this an insult, or rhetoric that it spews? An ontological question, coming from some
Mar 1, 2025
Days of the Week
By Adina Lynn LeCompte — As a young girl, I had a set of panties with the days of the week on them. Each of the seven was a different color,
Dec 5, 2024
I Stand Here
By Kellie Brown — I stand here fretting. Hands clasped, clenched. Breath stalled. Dread drowns fragile, nascent dreams. I stand here
Nov 26, 2024
About Me
By Rachel Turney — I change direction like a flock of small birds. I burn for seventy hours or even more. I clear ground on the way to the
Nov 16, 2024
Touchdown
By Lina Lambert — “Get yourself a wife who watches football on two TV screens!” my husband boasted, “and rubs your shoulders at half-time!”
Nov 11, 2024
A Look at Life
By Duane Anderson — What is next in my life? Being a hero, being a coward? I look at my life with no idea where it is going. Hopes and
Oct 27, 2024
Tanking The Growth Chart
By Emma Grenier — Waving goodbye to my family, I feel okay. Tired, from our strenuous day at the water park, but luckily the drive will be
Aug 30, 2024
A Lesson from an Inner City Teacher
By Michael H. Brownstein — Tempers are not something easily held. Students know this. They understand how to get a reaction from a teacher
Aug 9, 2024
So certain of the uncertain
By Jonash Lepcha — Did I say something, every time, unknowing that silence at times says everything and more? I do not have to say many
Aug 5, 2024
To the Boy I Saw Picking Up Leaves in the Park on the Way Home from Church
By Brittany Casselman — After watching you in the park on that chilly Sunday afternoon, I followed your example and found a leaf of my own.
Jul 2, 2024