By: Anupama Mishra The days are unpleasant, perilous and grave for the old. Having been deserted and left he is avoided like an abandoned house with its broken doors and sagging porch. Poor old, considered as an oxidised lock, is…
By: Andrew Broadous Laundry Day In this psych ward, the nurse unlocks the door with a keycard, one electric pop, and as the heavy metal halts shut, I turn, peer through a small glass window. I see the world escaping,…
By: Leslie McGriff For Derek Walcott I imagine they wrapped your body in white sheets around and around arms still at your sides the fabric delicate and lightweight leaving you open to the atmosphere your head they cased in an…
By: John Zurn Patience Patience is often seen as a burden When “now” is the proof of achievement. Faster is better and newer means more, And first is the measure of greatness. Impatient to raise my own self-esteem, I trust…
By: Antonia Schuster His nonchalant Kik message springs on to my screen at 3.20: How about 3.30 near Platform 28 bar? I make hasty excuses to my staff, sending them flighty Skype messages just got to duck out for half…
By Jane Collins-Philippe She goes to the fridge to let my brother in at the door and puts the butter in the oven along with her hat and the napkins normally meant for the table. When she forgets where she’s…
By: Woody Fran She wants so desperately to love And to be loved A love more powerful than the word itself The type only portrayed in movies She wants once again to trust As a newborn clings to its mother…
By: JL Smith Iron Maiden The iron maiden sits in the bedroom room corner, waiting for me to come inside, feel its confines, compression of air, its sharp nails, scraping my skin no matter where I turn. I put myself…
By: Allen Serrano If Our Sky Was Our Skin If our sky was our skin, what color would it be? Pigment dark enough to blaspheme a holy night or fair enough to irradiate the clouds as if heaven was here….
By: Denny E. Marshall Science Fiction Haiku black hole each a galaxy black hole deep space probe survives long enough to find got the color wrong all the things you did last month, alien watching on T.V. tonight aliens assure…