May We Meet Again (I’m ready to be hurt) by Jennifer Bui
may we meet again (i’m ready to be hurt)By: Jennifer Bui and so i stood in dante’s flames; heart on silver, and soul on lead. i drowned in death from faithful vows of the poisonous love i once had sworn with broken locks and mercury scars, veins of tears that paved the future’s paths. now […]
Smudging By Amanda Blake
I’ve kept the photo albums you sent not on a bookshelf inside my house, (There is no welcome mat for you) but in the pocket of my passenger-side door. No one looks at them and their pages are sticking together better than we did. Only once there was a wreck, a disagreement between metals, lives […]
untitled by Devin Manning
your hands are chains i have never wished to break free from. they hold me firmly yet i couldn’t dream of being let go. your fingers glide slowly over every curve of my body and every corner of my mind; fingertips dancing about like pristine ballerinas — as if i could possibly be equated to […]
Intersecting Planes by Carol “Jane” Hagen
Unable to find a horizon I once tried to dive into the sky at midnight there is no sign of where stars end and ocean begins I leapt too high off the boat holding only myself falling into that unasking unspeaking world below I’m not sure I ever hit the water or that I ever […]
Prevernal Chesapeake by Carol “Jane” Hagen
There is none of the electricity of winter in the marshland spring rains. Instead, they roll in on the humidity, oppressive and swollen. The peepers are the first to announce the new arrivals. Their prayers that their quickly filling vernal pool houses might stay long enough for the eggs they will soon lay echo against […]