By: Kimberly Potter Kendrick She stood blankly staring out the window Touching the glass pane, chills ran through her body Bleak, she thought Would the rain ever end Would she ever get home The courage she started the process with…
By: Tom Sheehan 1. The ocean is slow to warm and slow to cool, shivers edges of winter and, like the lover it is, cannot let go. December talks its way up filaments of frangible shinbones old knees hang onto…
By: Tom Sheehan Bones bang in the house, clutter of vellum lives; knobs of father’s eyes, like tender calf’s, burst once under strain of thick dosage that needled in his thigh, the coolest wedge of calamities, strong sugar epithet, fractional…
By: Tom Sheehan Two boys went to sea last night, riding an ice floe broken from the river dam, pilots at the helm. Some say a standard flew, brisk pennant’s wave, admiral’s flagship. I dream of water and ice, dread…
By: David Francis I am in the enchantment never to touch it like someone else’s garden but why worry if it touches me you do not touch the paintings in a museum I go along with that reasonableness There is doubtless…
By: David Francis I feel I know a side of you that no one but me knows I see you with the others and I feel lost I think: no, nothing in common exists between us as if an alarm went…
By: Balu George Why is it said one must pass through darkness to re-enter the light? Why is it said re-enter and not enter? Why did Mr. Kane whisper rosebud on his deathbed? I like idly and white chutney, I also…
By: Gareth C He is a labourer of tobacco, margarine coloured finger tips rotting apple brown skin. Lungs struggling to inflate, or breath, though one day may fail to take him out; But he is happy with his rolled fag and…
By: Gareth C The moon had cooked up a stew of cloud, but blamed the sea. Serving it to the mountains that sat in their own height. We were hit first as rain sizzled on the tents skin. I watched the…
By: Ruth Deming She curves like the crescent moon tiny blossoms with Roman noses of deep character, serious flowers who know the importance of every single day, to treat well your brethren, bow before them, pass them food when they’re…