By Barbara Harris Leonhard What is healing but the stabbing to death of pain, the banishment of shadows, the release of sorrows, the...

By Lucy Pettigrew History is repeating itself, stuck to the cracks in my wall and festering because I don’t want to face the clean-up....

By Kameron Lo A carousel of misery Twirling in throes of regret Release me from this burdened flesh And self destructive intellect...

By Jonathan Fear I crushed a wild rose, in my hand In my hand The thorns cut deep And the blood flowed fast The pain decreasing The...

By David Valentine I choke down a hundred placebos, Row by row they weekly go, The sugar sweet pseudo-psychosis . . . O Novacaine!...

By Sara Louise Wheeler “The ear is important”, said the tutor – several times. “You hear the stressed vowel”; the hearing, always the...

By Elina Tasioula ditched in the alley gimme them cigarettes got 'em paid for holla kid mamma's on the phone she licks the ashtrays...

By Dorota Chioma In the moment of a defeat, In the crisis of a mental breakdown, Abused by its brutality, Left exposed, Vulnerable,...

By R. Moores Space, wind, trees Breathe in while you can — _little one — _the worst is yet to come Alone you are not safe, alone you are...

By Cait Price they take me to see the bone witch stick out your tongue, she commands. I dream of black tar flooding my mouth. wet-mouthed...

By Allan J. Manson I lie a lot. Only about important things, to people I love. I cheated on your mother but to be fair, she cheated on...

By Jade M. Wong If I hang from a chandelier of ice, Will the cold seep into my bloodstream first, Like the harbinger of a frozen curse?...

By Tyler Ray Black Water washes on the shores of my mind. Searching but not finding, forever blind. Vast empty beaches stretch to the...

By Marina Zrnic In the woods the summer dies. It howles and whistles as broken dignity, such is the night of the autumn equinox. The...

By Hokus Grey There is not much time. The dark tide is coming, rising, like a wall, full of souls and smelling of death. Sticking to us;...

By Elina Tasioula Extended plays on an old cassette These fun gals live to learn Sally's ladies on a featurette Tonight the johns are...

By Paul Adam Short When I sought your acceptance The only words I heard Were slick-black and cloying Spat with furnace-heat People talk...

By Tassia Dorsamy In the darkness she shed In the darkness she bled Muffled painful sound echoing in her mind Constricted heart blinding...

By Chris Foster "You can be anything you want!" And parents tell children not to lie. Sweet dreams child. Growing up is hard, But wait...

By Georgia Lisette This body of water Swallows bodies of our daughters, bones of our sons. Unforgiving, dark, forbidding, Rolling roar at...