poetry

"The Sounds & the Hiker" & "Irony. Paradox. [English Media for Thought Pattern]" by Yuan Changming

The Sounds & the Hiker Down in the valley, you hear a Whole plethora of noises - loudest are Croaking & barking; halfway Uphill, you hear...

"converge" by Ilana Drake

the way that she looks in both directions as she boards the c train, as she focuses her eyes on the people around her, hoping to see the...

"Love is Blind (and Has a Stuffy Nose)" by Nolcha Fox

She reeked of debt, despair, and a litter box that hadn’t been cleaned for a week. She bulged in all the wrong places. He reeked of...

"The eye and the night" by Ivan de Monbrison

The sky falls to the ground it looks like small pieces of shattered glass a bit like water a bit like a broken lake of water you pick up...

"Christmas Boxes" & "Miracle of the Butterfly" by Fabrice B. Poussin

Christmas Boxes They have been roaming streets and avenues long before honest souls had awakened into another Monday. It was to be a...

"The Gunks" by Ivor Daniel

On the Shawangunk Mountains behind the Correctional Facility, I trip on boulders I cannot see in low luxurious slanting sunlight....

"Resiliency" by James B. Nicola

e s i A proportioned r after a d i v e re quires a bit of an an gle to get ho me James B. Nicola’s poetry has appeared internationally in...

"Transhumanist" by Padm Nabh Trivedi

Each Diwali, Amma would light up Small earthen lamps From a big one, And ask us to place at Everywhere we have a connection with: The...

"We Swayed Furtively" & "Monga-mish" by Cid Galicia

We Swayed Furtively I You were a shadow of rhythm In the arms, song, and body Of another man. So from a distance, I became him In order...

"the sweet spot", "unboxed:", "violent parasomnia", & "not being Kate Bush" by Jane Ayres

the sweet spot she weeps & creaks into the ooze & creep & scrape & crushing crackle of whenever trim / shape / slice / sculpt to feed ...

"put a laurel wreath around my neck" by Nicholas Barnes

pills got bigger: ten to twenty milligrams. now they’re horsesized. change in dosage prompted by a cry for help. by a secret told to my...

"Nails and spoons" & "Shutting in, shutting out", & "Le Mer"- Bonnie Meekums, Nolcha Fox

I’ve looked up at this building many times, from a cardboard city. It might as well be a different planet, made for those whose lives...

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