Slow Dance with the Light
By Danny P. Barbare — Work to a shine. No fuss about it. Direct and grime. Square as a tile. Proper, gentle and kind with a shout out loud. Proud with a smile
Jun 16, 2025
Paul Klee’s Rising Star
By John Brantingham — Klee has drawn the elements of a man’s face, eyes, nose, lips, cheeks, and he includes what rises inside him, a star that would clarify to others
Jun 12, 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
Nothing Left to Lose
Celia Jeffries — Rose Kennedy’s coffin was being transported up Route 3 from the Cape, followed by a couple of buses full of the Kennedy family. It was a cold day
Jun 6, 2025
Hospital Delirium
By David Obuchowski — The patient’s name is David. He’s a 45-year-old male. On December 2nd, he had a small bowel resection as well as a, and here they always
May 31, 2025
We Don't Talk About the Pandemic Anymore
By Chuck Rybak — They ebbed. We helped them. We fed the belly beef. Be well. They ebbed. The MD meted the med medly. ML, MG. Yet the temp fell
May 28, 2025
New Home
By Jan Wiezorek — Trailer, give me my new home, cuddly, as a furry animal crawling, digging itself out of a wall, animated as cockroaches. The impact of
May 25, 2025
If Peace Was A Dancer
By M. L. Lyons — Peace loves the dulcet tones and only sidesteps the goose footed, the overly rigid, but laughs with the flat-footed, the eager, the shy who
May 21, 2025
Elf and George K.O. Chaney
By Craig Kirchner — I get a phone call from The Baltimore Sun informing me of my grandfather’s posthumous induction into the International Boxing Hall of Fame.
May 18, 2025
BRIDGE BETWEEN
By Nina Rubinstein Alonso — The first meet-the-family-dinner was silent and awkward, silverware clicking and clacking, but afterwards Peter’s brother
May 15, 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 13, 2025
Burying My Dead Eye
By Dr. Ivy George — It is high noon, and the South Indian sun is relentless. The morning paper, “The Hindu” has announced that the mercury will hold
May 11, 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 8, 2025
The Longing
By Paweł Markiewicz — Let’s go! dearest butterfly. Your blood is like an ambrosia. Your soul seems to be a pretty light eudemonia. Your tender garden is at
May 5, 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 2, 2025
My Life With Cars
By Bruce D Snyder — My first wife’s Uncle David owned a car dealership. A WWII combat vet, he was ‘shell-shocked,’ which showed up occasionally when
Apr 30, 2025
A memory of Whyoma, a memory of hers
By Matthew Anderson — When she was a little girl, my grandmother Whyoma carried in her small hands a dish of water and minnows. The few minnows swam
Apr 27, 2025
Rhythms of Resistance
By Robert Martin — In the gritty alleys where shadows dance, amidst the chaos, a poetic trance. In a street fight's fray, words collide, verses as weapons,
Apr 24, 2025
The Colors of Love
By Marc Audet — What is the color of your love? Is it warm pink, like moist lips right before a first kiss? Or is it the hot red you feel when you are about to lose
Apr 21, 2025