By: Stacey Z Lawrence FINAL EDIT for Jamal Khashoggi She waits down the street from the Mövenpick Istanbulis love cinema as foreigners carve and slice him first into slabs, then manageable portions. Hard men clad in blue denim, Italian loafers…
By: Lily Fields Friends with benefits I know you cannot help the way you feel But your reaction to seeing me, always makes me reel. Yourself off of me, you refuse to peel, But the vent of your emotions, you’re…
By: Marc Carver YOU FINISHED I thought I was finished then I saw the little dog sat on the table outside the pub he was licking the beer from the glass and when another couple came out his tail started…
By: Sahaj Sabharwal Inner Voice is a voice Which expels when no choice. Tolerance is silent inside noise Which becomes dangerous crime’s base. Including burning heart cries Which ignites when blood dries. Tension reaches greater heights Which internally firmly bites….
By: Marcus Severns Drop That Heavy Load You gotta unwind Your shoe laces, And let a load off your chest By letting go of the tension With a large breath; Let it go. The weight of the world is on…
By: Constance Woodring skittering through the edges of your life. So tiny, and yet so much power do I have over the female gender. They are taught by the age of three to scream “EEK!” at the sight of me,…
By Alan Berger I certainly can’t blame you For throwing me out of our band Let us face the music I had a heroin addiction as big as the land Remember when they built that tour bus Just for our…
By: Kevin O’Keeffe Streetlamp I’ve long admired him, This steely Atlas, Denying the dark its nightly ambition. He is like a footman, stiff With some serious duty. Trusted, and attentive. Are we so different, he and I? He eyes the…
By : Amirah Al Wassif they said your voice shouldn’t be heardwe need a woman without soundthen I asked my godo lord, do I count?and he answered me in shortraise your voice and shoutthey said we need a perfect…
By: Steven Jakobi for Wally A bright blue morning, clean and fresh after the rain. An ordinary day of ordinary lives and ordinary tasks. Except that you left us today. A Wednesday in August. Like any other Wednesday during your…