Known for her evocative poetry, imaginative fiction, and insightful reviews, Teresa Clayton was long an inspirational member of the literary...

The World is a Vampire Ted Axe The world is a Vampire It sucks and bleeds us dry. It digs in deep with its fangs And hears not our cries. Th...

Golden Apple (Same Seed) James Kenneth Blaylock a golden apple for the taking, a sweet fruit of character it can be baked into aromatic pies...

Black Moon Promise Judge Santiago Burdon Bathroom confessions backdoor redemption Black moon promise made to a leather winged Angel Afterglo...

The Balance M Teresa Clayton I listen to the waves rushing ashore; the ebb and flow… the rhythmic beating of lives measured cadence keeping ...

The Greatest Film Ever Made © Jerry Langdon 2023 Passing the threshold of the cinema door Spelunking deep into the darkness, Scrying for the...

Houdini Outwits Mussolini Alan Lisanti I'm too smart to be the worm on your hook But I lack hands to free myself And so I wriggle and wr...

A Good Stiff Morning Robert McDermott I woke up and noticed my morning glories were wilted My penis was not I peed on them They awakened, to...

I Think of This: Devin J. Meaney Late at night when demons hiss, I reach for peace—swing and a miss, When all else fails I think of this, Yo...

  Anxiously Awaiting! ©Rich Orth 7/12/2023 6:28pm  These recurring dreams Impressed upon me Fears once sequestered  Eulogies allegorically ....

Mirage. Tamara Picardo I pushed my way to a gloomy tumult of abstract sensations, so similar to despair, while assaulting images of new thin...

The Forest Whispers Tanner Reiss Walk in silence through the forest of darkness Pay no mind to the footsteps that creep behind The voices y...

Psithurism Sky Claudette Soto Psithurism, the sounds of rustling leaves and the wind in my ravened hair, and in the autumn leaves and in t...

Thirteen Ways of Looking at The Ugly Duckling Alison Stone 1. Hans Christian Anderson was an “ugly” boy – tall with a big nose and big ...

Young & Naïve Jeremy Void I miss being so young & naïve when the world was just so innocent and beautiful I was just a kid way back ...

Untitled Jeremy Void Events pass us so fast and soon become just another memory to add to the collection So don’t take things for ...

Breaking Glass Jeremy Void I threw the bottle in the air and swirling and spiraling it came straight down crashing on the train tracks and t...

Why Don’t We Alison Stone The animals want us to go -- parrots, pumas, long-lashed giraffes. Our greed limitless as stars. Jewel-winge...

Picket Fence Alison Stone The mother drinks in secret. The father punches his shame into a wall. So many ways to pretend. The daughter...

Ghost Pipes Sky Claudette Soto Ghost Pipes these colorless ghost pipes, Indian pipes that gather their nutrients from rich soils ceases, to ...