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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 – […]

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 […]

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 […]

By: Lazaro Gutierrez perhaps for my one true love, she bought me roses —red velvet wine, like the ones that I buy her every valentine’s. * the day that I die i […]

By: Alison McBain BEYOND a point in time indicates finish period to a sentence finite space stopped by boundaries, contained but what if a point in time is simply continuation? beyond the […]

By: Khalilah Okeke Angel Her eyes are celestine crystals. Healing through their watchful gaze. I thread them like beads to wear around my neck so I can see. Her song a scribbled […]