Category: Poetry
Issue 25 | Summer 2020
By
Joshua Michael Stewart
| Poetry
Hell flickers
in the throats of fallen birds. Dust on tongues,
how long must we wait for ashes?
Issue 25 | Summer 2020
By
Lawrence Wray
| Poetry
But consider
the nests he made. They are like words
shaped by the body which inhabits them,
plaited with grass and twigs, with twine,
blue ribbon, with shreds of paper.
Issue 25 | Summer 2020
By
R. Nikolas Macioci
| Poetry
You begin to grow drowsy,
but the once velvet sleep you took for
granted no longer flowers into peaceful
dreams.
Issue 25 | Summer 2020
By
Sean Lause
| Poetry
Rusted through, the stoveheart of this house.
The television glows in cancer blue,
and floorboards gently stain the kitchen red.
Issue 25 | Summer 2020
By
Theadora Siranian
| Poetry
Look at us now with our bludgeoned
hands held like empty weapons to the stars.
Issue 25 | Summer 2020
By
R. Nikolas Macioci
| Poetry
Finished ironing, I emptied extra water onto
cement, reluctant to climb stairs back into
claustrophobic caregiving.
Issue 25 | Summer 2020
By
Matthew Tuckner
| Poetry
Every time it rains, the foxes pull apart
with their claws a rainbow and commence
a procession through it, walking on
all fours to the town square for a wedding.
Issue 24 | Winter 2020
By
Peter Munro
| Poetry
If one / could slough pain, let wind come.