By: Gabriella Mejico As the mercury drops, and twilight passes into night. I greet Cetus and Orion as they travel through the Milky Way. A freezing caress lures me deeper into the night. Time is forgotten, and all that remains are…
By: Denny E. Marshall after incident the three bears change locks goldilocks meets up with little red riding hood three bears surprise wolf jack’s magic beanstalk only climb up short distance harvest giant beans realize bad kisser that day riding in…
By: Denny E. Marshall after countless years in deep underground shelter open steel hatch door airless as much of shock as sight of asteroid surface spend year’s underground finally the day arrives open hatch with caution step on surface, air is…
By: James Croal Jackson I can tell you how many points LeBron scored last night or who won the World Series, but I can’t fix the leaking faucet in the bathroom, won’t mow the lawn if not overgrown. I don’t change…
By: James Croal Jackson Between floors I meet calm– meditation when firefighters arrive. Frank O’Hara might be proud though there were no red lights streaming in how one can wedge one’s own ideology in a wavering tower halfway to clouds but…
By: Balu George When you read in the papers, About a successful young entrepreneur, 5 or 10 years younger than you, Do you feel irritated and sad? Now let me ask you something. Do you enjoy eating a Masala dosa?…
By: Balu George If somebody boasts, let her be. If somebody does not boast, let her also be. If somebody eats chicken by the reasoning that they can’t fly, let her be. If somebody thinks it shows a lack of empathy…
By: Linda M Crate i am passionate and intense, but also vulnerable; people have always tried to exploit my kindness as if it were a weakness— but i am no fool i can see through their masks even if i…
By: Linda M Crate the cardinal found his way to the branches of my mother’s tree which produces too many walnuts come autumn which i would carry away by the bucket full as a girl to throw in the woods…
By: Linda M Crate i walk past a magical grove where faeries play they don’t seem to mind me although they hide in the trees or ivy on the ground when i walk past i can feel their presence as…