The Way I See It
By Denise Michaels — Today, I’m inspired to transplant the spider-wort, a misnamed flowering bush I enjoy for its profuse purple flowers, velvet-like, the
Nov 14, 2025
See Me Smile
By Duane Anderson — What makes me smile? Going on an outing with my wife to visit a few friends over dinner, getting a smile from our dog as I rub its belly in
Nov 11, 2025
My love for you is deep…
By Pulkita Anand — My love for you is deep, majestic and passionate. Like an ocean, it’s unfathomable. It is unbounded. The waves of my heart want to hold you. My thoughts are drowned in
Nov 7, 2025
Our children don't belong to us
By Betty Vega — Despite my family saying, “No mother should have to bury her child,” I think everyday how commonplace that is. Mothers lose their
Nov 3, 2025
Learning to Draw During COVID
By Millie Ford — It was a hard time to be a hypochondriac. Daily death tolls geysering all over the country. Refrigerated trucks as temporary morgues.
Oct 30, 2025
Me
By John L. Swainston — It is a rivers water that I want to be, not knowing where I am going, not caring where I have been. I am here, now. The rocks
Oct 27, 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
Autumn in Michigan
Linda Leedy Schneider — My woods are a kaleidoscope of colors. Maple, birch and dogwood are changing their green work clothes, revealing their authentic
Oct 20, 2025
By the Hundreds
By Robert Martin — “It seems to me,” the man began—leaning into the air as if the sky itself had leaned in to listen. And then the torrent. Words by the hundreds
Oct 16, 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
The Rescuer
By Penny Nolte — Bathed in my own sweat I am in bed, no in the car. No, in the hospital, lungs rigid, creaking like paper bags. A two-headed nurse is here
Oct 9, 2025
Joy Is a Radical Act
By Plamen Vasilev — In a world often riddled with chaos, injustice, and suffering, joy stands as a radical act of defiance against the prevailing narratives
Oct 6, 2025
Ask Me What The War Was Like
By Daniel J. Davis — Ask me if I was ever afraid. I'll say, "only sometimes." Ask me if I was in danger. I'll tell you I was as safe as anyone can be over there, and that I
Sep 30, 2025
Holding One Candle
By Glenn Marchand — I heard about a rock bearing witness. I listened to a rainbow as a sign. A man from invisibility received tithes from a forefather. Therewith
Sep 27, 2025
We Hold On To What We Know
By Debra Dolan — Jamie will always be my little brother, even though he was, quite literally, a big guy. He was the connector in our family. When my mother
Sep 25, 2025
Oh How I Love Thee
By Dwight Jenkins — Remember what you told me when you spoke with your heart? How we swore that no earthy distractions could keep us apart. Do you
Sep 21, 2025
I Call Him Pain
By Scott Frink — Self-healing might mend it someday, somehow. But for now, it stays that way as the mind drifts, like when sunny skies fade to gray.
Sep 12, 2025