It’s in Our Nature
By R James Sennett Jr — Nature found the humor today. Tripped over it. Trickster! Tickling the soft belly of the babies. Baby animals.
Jul 12, 2024
enigma
By Joan McNerney — Shapes of time, our time, pulsing in this labyrinth of today's bizarre maze, leading to confusion as we witness never
Jul 10, 2024
Weather Poem
By Jeremiah K Durick — This is not the climate we were born into. It’s the climate we brought on ourselves. They even warned us, but we
Jul 8, 2024
Smile
By Sushant Thapa — I can smile with the sun. By the time the moon rises, I can still carry on the game of smiling. The thunder has the light
Jul 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 3, 2024
Passions
By N.T. Chambers — He knew her before she was born, in a way that drowning men know the sea - flailing without hope, surrendering without
Jun 27, 2024
Tomorrow
By Jennifer Trieckel — The stillness of the day, bright and clean, full of possibilities and opportunities, ignored and broken by a
Jun 24, 2024
RT-PCR test
By Sandip Saha — I saw how much you can take on yourself, untiring in the adventurous tour we ventured into. RT-PCR and Rapid Antigen tests
Jun 21, 2024
Target Range
By Holly Day — She held the gun in her hand and imagined she was the prostitute she’d read about in the newspaper, knew that if she was that
Jun 17, 2024
A CHEF OF SORTS
By Tim Suermondt — The noodles beginning to boil, meat simmering in the pan and the already made salad sparkles—as I remember my friend who
Jun 14, 2024
My Race to Self-Improvement
By Rowan Moskowitz — Whenever I look at myself, I can’t help cringe at my reflection, the flaws instantly popping out thanks to my already
Jun 10, 2024
Shadowing Friendship
By Rajendra Ojha (Nayan) — Friendship cannot be maintained like a nail and a finger by everyone, and cooperation with a living soul is
Jun 7, 2024
Stigma
By Brighid Aime — Stigma is a force in much need of recourse, drawn by the masses, carried through systems and classes. Sensitive. Soulful.
Jun 4, 2024
No One Noticed The Noise
By Lynn White — She lay there still, quiet in her flesh, and her covering of skin though her heart was drumming loudly and in her head she
Jun 1, 2024
CLICK, CLICK, CLICK (The Photographer’s Song)
By Vicki L W Graff — I photograph whatever I see. An insect, a building, a rock or a tree. Nothing escapes the lens through which I see, my
May 29, 2024
Shuffling to Fortune in Bombay
By Tim Campbell — Pilgrims shuffle in quiet grace, like a sentence of hope a thousand syllables long. They trek on a causeway over the
May 26, 2024
Soul Mechanic
By John Swainston — Visited many places in my life. There are those that I remember and some forgotten or wish I could. There is a place I
May 23, 2024
7 Quips from the Country Club deep in the South
By W.M. Odell — A pestering gold ringed bee finally rests, poolside…buzzing while sipping on a chlorine martini. Egotistic waves trade wind
May 20, 2024
Purple Season
By Genevieve S. Aguinaldo — It was 4 am when you told me that you had the virus. How can you tell me not to panic? We are separated by nine
May 16, 2024