I Just Need My Hand Held
By Christine Carpenter — I am in one of the final prenatal appointments of my pregnancy and because I have something called marginal cord
Jul 22, 2021
Reconciling Silence
By Philip Vassallo — You and I stand still, deep in the forest on the path toward the clearing, waiting for a tree to fall, but all we hear
Jul 16, 2021
I Don't Have To Be Amanda Gorman
By Noelle Sterne — A series of (female) nemeses, killer weeds, plagues from college on, each marking my insecurity, guilt, deficiency,
Jul 14, 2021
Falling in Love
By Abrielle — June is a special month. I feel summer setting in. Falling in love is like summer. Watching the sun set, saying goodbye to the
Jul 12, 2021
Five Vanilla Cones
By Linda LeMoine — My mind flashes a memory of a mini me. I’m about five years old and we are on our weekly drive to visit cousins. Dressed
Jul 3, 2021
My White Privilege
By Robert Knox — My white privilege gets me around town, protects me in my careless teens. Imprinted clearly in the photo on my driver’s
Jun 30, 2021
The Problem with Chivalry
By Alan Cohen — There are more scars on my heart inflicted by women than there are days in the year. It is better not to love them.
Jun 27, 2021
Embark
By Rose Loving — There was so much nourishment growing in that valley. The wild leeks we ate every day with eggs at dawn. The coltsfoot we
Jun 23, 2021
I Ardently Feel
By Ashok Chakravarthy Tholana — A spiritual thirst, an unending quest lurks in the heart at the forefront. Neither can I resist, nor can I
Jun 18, 2021
Dawns 21 Haiku
By Jake Cosmos Aller — 2021 Dawns. Politics are still uncertain. Thousands still are dying. The madness never ends it seems. Consuming us
Jun 16, 2021
I Am From
By Debra Dolan — I'm from the lonely and misunderstood. From the "I don't believe you" and "I hope you have a daughter just like you" to
Jun 14, 2021
Living the Good Life
By Leah Bleiberg — To this day, I'm not sure what possessed me to answer the dentist the way I did. I think it was the feisty part of me
Jun 11, 2021
Covid in a Bell Jar
By Teresa van Luyk — I met my cottage neighbor, Joe, on the beach a month or so ago, before this latest stay-at-home order, and we caught up
Jun 9, 2021
After the Interview
By John D Robinson — After reading the interview she said to me, "You sound
so bitter, mean about people." "I am," I said.
Jun 7, 2021
My Exhaustion
By Christi Jeane — "Exhaustion is killing my creativity." This thought crept into my head about six weeks ago, and it won’t leave me alone.
Jun 5, 2021
Phantom Writer
By Nicole Menzzasalma — She seems stressed of all things, fragile and shrewd. She says she loves me. She’s the only one that makes me sing.
Jun 3, 2021
Pandemic Protocol
By Nancy Smiler Levinson — One of my reserved books is ready at curbside pickup. I phone for a date. Press one.
Name check. ID card check
Jun 1, 2021
The Nectar Song
By Yuan Hongri & Translated by Manu Mangattu — A sieve of my soul I weave with lightning of time. And cast it into the interstellar sea of
May 31, 2021
Five Haiku
By Sergio Inestrosa — The cool breeze.
The butterfly flies over the petals. Thrown tree in the middle of the way. Croak of toads. Raindrops
May 30, 2021