By Manny Cartagena Each fiber of life Screams pain as the wind Ceases to cease Snow piling on my frozen limbs Eventually burning cold...

By Kalila Bradley Do you ever wish you could fly? Not fly upwards Down wards Live in the perpetual falling Exist in that...

By Alexis Brooks “Calm down” hits hard in the gut. Throat momentarily coated in bitter vomit, In futile hope she fought the flashback....

By Rishi Chundury a clock’s fading chime lost years drift in moonlight dust seconds melt like stars #darkpoetsclub

By Yati Ramli There is a shadow etched in the marrow of my bones, not a burden, but a tattoo, marking the unsaid, the spaces where light...

By Deirdre Devally Before I proclaim my love to the daughter, I insist on meeting the Mother. read over my list, titled; The One. I...

By Synodinos-George Paraschis I have always been fascinated by secrets, that barely accessible knowledge that is revealed only to a...

By Ghost Terestrea Muscling forces tether the ovum of precious beings pernicious entities that smother a sacred species they pluck...

By Aaron Tweed On a train to Belfast, Botanic. The rain lashes almost horizontally outside. The usual reverie occupies me. Then I see...

By Julie Shackman Twisting, Like a Flamenco dancer, A tortured silhouette, My shadow flashes against the wall. My haunted, weary...

By Deborah Humphrey an easy start booze fun finals i became we overnight it lasted too long you knew better all night inhale...

By P.S. Lynch On 9th February 1983, Dennis Nilsen was arrested after fingers and human flesh were found blocking the drains outside his...

By Cathy Briel I loved my dog I miss my dog I don’t miss my family. I ran from them at times.... The fall down the stairs with pills...

By Emanuele Bonanno The thought of a scapegoat slithers, coerced, Feasting raw on naked flesh and ancestral remains. Against them, it...

By Petty Dreadful A night of colour washed away By silvery blankets of light. A moon dog so large...

By Alex Padina This morning the air was fresh, but clinging to it was a scent of rotting flesh. A fermenting dead animal must have been...

By Sorlie Lennox I lift the bony head from where I left it up on the cliffs. Looking out to sea it is blown bone dry and salted - stiff...

By Hope Savage We spent a morning trying to build a house, inside our house, that we want her to call home. It looked perfect in the...

By Ashley Cornel How beautiful it is to live untethered, To be a drift and feel the midnight sky caress me like a lover. Oh so often I’d...

By Annie Dawid A tooth in a tube like a seed in ether sprouts on the windowsill. There are reasons for the absence of mirrors. A...