By Benjamin Daniel Lukey An unfamiliar sound disturbed my sleep— And as I drew the curtains from my brain, I there beheld a sight to make...

By Willa Woodhouse As I walk across the ice coated grass It crunches beneath my feet   I pull my coat closer As thoughts pass through my...

By Ellen R. Adams You, the Brick You, the weight of river stones pulling deep, dragging me beneath the darkened waves, where silence...

By Rebecca Seymour You asked me for beauty in darkness I don’t know if it’s beauty, but in darkness I find myself Here, I am here And now...

By Cat London It was crunches and crackles Fire and spurts of sound Akin to bones on the ground. But the fog was dense And sound was...

By Jennifer-Lee Weldon I guess we're all a little haunted, A small amount, A shadow, Who has a soft glow around the corners, And comes...

By JS Hyder Gloom descends as the last rays breach the hazy room. Yellowed fingers tremble over the dog-ends overflowing in ash. Bloodred...

By Isabel Szurlej Thick necklace of stars light-years wide Wrapped around the neck of the Goddess. Beautiful stellar disk with its...

By Lores Denison She takes three deep breaths to steady herself and goes over the mental checklist again. She has: the gloves, the razor...

By Pam Martin somewhere a finger tenses on a trigger a butterfly lights on clover a lover embraces another somewhere people are lying...

By Vi Vi Hunt Every day I wake and cauterize my gums.   I have this dream each night, wherein I open my mouth and my teeth are hanging...

By Ro Mascia I've been wrathful, still am, but I’ll keep talking; I've been hungry, might be again, but I'll keep sharing; I've been...

By Mehran Waheed Date night at the restaurant, cut too short by your father's call for help. "You're kidding," you reply, but your face...

By Samantha Molloy I stare at you, your lips moving like sharp machetes, slicing through air, each word digging its grave into the...

By Eve Parkin There’s a growing cradle in my womb where a monster Sprawls. Like I’m pregnant. Heavy and needy. When it first kicked, An...

By Heather Van Ness Fear climbed inside my heart And chewed up my chest. When it reached my eyes it toppled over And dampened my cheeks....

By Laura Quigley My first act as a parent, so precarious, I took you home. Now I wait here for the ferry and it’s raining and it’s cold....

By Finnegan Swift There is no truth in skin, fickle veneer stretched choking tight across truthful frames. Turn clear that vile...

By Clare Marsh A pinched ribbon of land clings between Hallstätter See and sheer Dachstein mountains, where September mist rolls down...

By Lavender Hemlock Before your end, I’d plucked my lashes one by one, counting the hairs on my arm to burn with the end of the incense...