Wendy Taylor Carlisle Birthday That day you tell yourself you can’t fall out or down, favored as you’ve been by luck and the good opinion of your secretary and your kids until you notice your toes slue sidewise on your feet and nothing is on your mind after that but the lean ankles of girlhood and […]
Read MoreKirby Campbell Saturday This day was made for lying in bed with the lights off, while the girl you met last night listens to your heartbeat and tears down every misconception you ever had about love. Kirby Campbell is a graduate of the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff and currently resides inNew Orleans.
Read MoreHeidi Morrell Lily I hook a Calla lily stem, and rob the stamen of the creamy pollen hovering like small atmosphere around its finger planet, rubbing it on my cheek in a sudden suburban ritual, drawing in some earthly connection however paltry, to the security of seasons, terrestrial rhythms among the cement, exhaust, and screens […]
Read MoreMcKinley Keener Separation For months after I first became a victim of the phone-cord noose that is long distance love, his crescent moon eyes still accompanied every pair of red sneakers I saw. McKinley Keener lives in Brooklyn, NY and watches just enough Netflix to be considered a college student.
Read MoreMarybeth Rua-Larsen Nine Inch Nails You sat on the couch cutting your long, black hair, chunk after chunk, while I kept my big-eyed distance beside you, not moving, not speaking, hoping not to be next as your cell shook with its “Terrible Lie” ringing, Pops signaling his release, insisting on a ride home. Marybeth Rua-Larsen […]
Read MoreDavid Anthony Martin In Bed Still between us lying in the dark we cosset something so small and its sharp winter nails. David Anthony Martin is native to the Olympic Peninsula of Cascadia but for the last two decades has made his home in Colorado where he forages for wild mushrooms when in season, collects feathers when found […]
Read MoreKen Sawitri After divorce helping her daughter to glue pieces for her first collages. Ken Sawitri was born in Blora, Central Java, Indonesia and is a haiku pupil who dedicated her haiku her motherland in Listen The Spice Whispers and noted her journey in writing haiku in http://thisissawitri.blogspot.com.
Read MoreKatherine McCormick denouement So you rush and rush, hurry hurry until you can hurry no more and your knee where you twisted it in school starts to burn when the sky grays and drops fall and your hair thins, changes color as you change shape, slow down and tire faster but you ignore the signs […]
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