By: Derek Harmening On the last day of my twenties A soft snow fell. Quietly, almost apologetically, As though embarrassed at having burdened us all With the memory Of winter. It hugged the narrow sidewalk like a fitted sheet, Covering…
By: Monika Reddy If she is beautiful, she got corrupted. If she is ugly, she is a bitch. If she is lean, not more than a broom stick. If she is stout, she will be an everlasting spinster. If she…
By: Mark Kodama We may believe but do not know If God is Christian, Muslim or Jew, Or if He exists only in our minds. Given the paucity of our knowledge, Why not give each other the benefit of the…
By: Milt Montague A Dime When I was a young lad Ten cents had some valueA dime could buy a cup of joe And a doughnut or two …
By: Gerard Sarnat Kafka Joylessly Metamorphed “Oy, you know the very best predictor of your future is the past,” pontificated the pachyderm matriarch gazing at her trunk in a pond. Hugely wrong, thunk this undulating pollywog… Back when before elephant…
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 into the present Your face is slowly fading…
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 the pool others have flashed thinned silver like…
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 – Is the Essence That is Dense In and…
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 disappears beneath a cracked concrete pillar desecrated by …
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 a Desideratum, For a peccable quickening Of the…