By: Ruth Z. Deming HERDSMEN STICK TOGETHER Chillingly cold I stand at front door at midnight my forehead seeming to freeze Clouds like huge grey curls roil about the sky in silent vengeance All of us herdsmen on our street…
By: Linnea Cooley The Little League Game At the little league game, when a man (a parent from the opposing team) stands with his fingers curled through the chain link fence and sees me at bat (head too big for…
By: John Grey A COUPLE We’re a couple. There’s been this path from you and me to us that we both willingly took. Now nothing is one us or the other. We’ve joined up. I lead. You follow. You lead….
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…