By: Christopher Johnson The road wagged back and forth like the tail of a dog, curling around saltboxes and Cape Cods and three-hundred-year-old colonials with rough-hewn beams and low ceilings. Eventually the […]
November Forest Walk
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If You Can Come Away
By: Welkin Siskin If you can come away with sublime love beating out of our union, Being oblivious, creating disaffection, I guess should I leave you on your wish. It is not […]
Chinese Poet Hongri Yuan’s Two Poems
By Chinese Poet Hongri YuanTranslated by Yuanbing Zhang I Was Originally The God of the Gods I shall change seawater into honey， smelt the stone into the gold， The bitter is namely […]
‘Apple of my Eyes’ and other poems by Mariel Avecilla
By: Mariel Avecilla Apple of my Eyes The paradise wast did fill with— creatures, plants, floweth’rs in myriad div’rsity. each one possessing peculiar attributes, but all of those enthrall’d me not, f’r […]
‘All I Want to Do’ and other poems by Samantha Lizardo
By: Samantha Lizardo All I Want to Do I’ll listen to your story As your soul peeks from your eyes All I want to do is say hi to you Oh, dear […]
‘Veteran’ and other poems by Lucia van den Brink
By: Lucia van den Brink Veteran You are a war zone windows were broken doors kicked in bombs landed and now when glass falls doors slammed shut firework explodes You react as […]
Lost Civilization Re-emerges
By William T. Hathaway In the early 1950s, as the newly developed hydrogen bomb cast its mushroom-shaped shadow of megadeath over the world, an aged Indian monk gave his young assistant a […]
Mary Mackey opens up about her new poetry collection ‘The Jaguars That Prowl Our Dreams’
Interviewed by: Carol Smallwood Mary Mackey, with a B.A. from Harvard College and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from The University of Michigan, is a New York Times bestselling author and award-winning […]
Faith
By: Adam Kluger The green tongue of the monster was hard and spiky. The rubbery grey lips and dark hard outer shell were open, completely exposed. Ok. So my universal remote fell […]
‘Defeated’ and other poems by John Tustin
By: John Tustin DEFEATED A few days after the day When it all began for us You spoke to me, Hushed as if under house arrest And I could hear your voice […]
