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Beware by Carl Douglas
All fluorescent before the dreamscape The feeling continues We dispel grotesque delusions And become luminous Love will be born I am desirous Beware! Wary curious Fading slowly Sun on his face Down...
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For Aurélie by Elizabeth Cook
Stay your course, and do not trim Your sails to reach me drifting I want neither warmth nor rescue From the autumn waves’ crashing But to know the great and empty cold Of the sea seeping through my...
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Eternal Flame by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm
Cremate me in your fires of passion, burn my soul indelibly, memories will a story fashion, of how we loved, and used to be.
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Attack by J.K. Durick
Sometimes my heart is a liability, a ticking mess trying to out guess my density and my gravity. It tries out attitude and platitude, beats its lonely drum that only some can hear, or it crashes,...
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Quiet by Kasia Pilat
Our quiet apartment: my shoes tucked in quietly next to yours, only sound the creaking of bones, the mattress it creaks and then a battalion: mean, salty men riding the seas. They beckon, like sirens,...
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The Current Market by James Curtiss
There was a time when coke was much cheaper. But that was after all in the 90s; and what’s more, its rise in price is nothing compared to what taxes have done to smoking. Two when I started, seven...
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Lost In Translation by Allie Marini Batts
It will never matter what the words were that washed away in a feedback tsunami of Just Like Honey all that matters is that you whispered at all.
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2 poems by Ivan Jenson
Grocery List I need a couple of items from the store pick me up a carton of perseverance with no expiration date a dozen new ideas a box of ethereal dreams lips smiling and saying cheese bring back...
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2 poems and a photograph by William D. Hicks
My Mind my mind can’t adjust to late night darkness deep inside corners of muddy book puddles that muddle my mind Breathing A cold front complicated love today as lack of simple fresh oxygen, cool,...
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3 poems by Marya Zilberberg
Smoke and ecstasy You smuggle your love inLike contrabandIn the darkTongue loadedShe grinds your heartInto powderThat tastes faintlyOf ironYou areBrandedFebrileRigorousThe shiver of chainsIs a faint...
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I Will Know Your Love Was Real by Kathy Boles-Turner
Please refrain from metaphors Made of heart-shaped paper, And I will know your love was real. Describe it glistening with viscera, Not rose-scented. Authentic emotion is far...
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On Evenings Like This by Anjumon Sahin
On evenings like this A cup of tea and You Is all I need. On evenings like this A cup of tea and You Is all I want. Droplets of rain dissolve in my pink cup as it stands alone on the railing. The moist...
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In Certain Matters of the Heart by Donal Mahoney
It’s a matter of the heart, the doctor says, and he can fix it with catheter ablation. “It works miracles,” he says, “in certain matters of the heart.” He’s been a cardiologist for years. “Take my word...
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