By: Alan Berger We met on line, not online. We were waiting in our cars to get into the garage in the building we both live in, and the car in front […]
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Author is an umbrella name given to the contributors of the Literary Yard
Poems: ‘Meeting’ n ‘Eye’
By: Aakriti Kuntal Meeting What is it there? There– on that eloping side of the lip? where the rivers seem to be conspiring and a puddle exists in patience, awaiting its arrival […]
The time the doorknob broke
By Austin J. Dalton By 5PM, New Year’s Eve fireworks were already driving the dogs in the neighborhood insane. As often happens when he had time to himself, Johnny gradually found himself […]
Lobotomy
By: Michal Reibenbach I noticed a school girlfriend of mine was walking behind her parents on the other side of the road to us. Her head was wrapped up in an enormous […]
‘The Tempered Flame’ and two more poems by David Francis
By: David Francis The Tempered Flame Only you know me only you have analyzed me only you have suffered with me know my pros and cons others have dipped slender ankles in […]
Poem: Creator
By: Mythili Nagarajan Refined It defines. Crude It shreds. Spoken It breeds. Unspoken It creeds. Powerful In nature Power If nurture. Be it Nor it be – Been to Mean. Sensed – […]
Poem: Kengeri Station
By: Priya Anand Eerie and deserted, dimly lit with neon lights flickering Something rustles in the corner where darkness pools and gathers malaise that rustles and ripples A cockroach scurries across And […]
‘Schadenfreude’ and other poems by JayM
By: JayM Schadenfreude: Without Cruelty, where would the circus be… For humanity to seek, The magnanimity of mercy under, The crack of the whip; The collectives’ fervent desire To be entertained… Callousness […]
‘Perhaps’ and other poems by Lazaro Gutierrez
By: Lazaro Gutierrez perhaps for my one true love, she bought me roses —red velvet wine, like the ones that I buy her every valentine’s. * the day that I die i […]
‘Beyond’ and other poems by Alison McBain
By: Alison McBain BEYOND a point in time indicates finish period to a sentence finite space stopped by boundaries, contained but what if a point in time is simply continuation? beyond the […]
