DEATH
By Christopher Sedgwick Death my guardian angel or sin Provider of the truth and lie I am in A world denounced and people So putrified...
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I MET A SOMEONE
By Tom Robert Roy I met a someone, middle-aged or less, We had a date, she wore a stunning dress, Her bargain makeup plied to win a race...
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THE ROPE
By Universal Shiva That day you took that rope, Before your last breath, Believed there was no hope, Ready to face death. I often wonder...
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'MEMORY OF A FRIEND'
By Christopher Sedgwick Leave it up to me To forget about the sea The salty sweated kisses Sand dunes, licked by breeze Our hearts beat...
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DARKNESS
By Maisie Barlow The sun is shining but there’s a dull ache, I should be feeling happy but I can’t shake this strange feeling of...
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THE OBJECTIFIED ABJECT
By Sara Louise Wheeler Dr Sara Louise Wheeler has Waardenburg Syndrome Type 1, and she is exploring all aspects of her embodied...
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CRUELTY OF THE GODS
By Safiyyah Altaf You were growing on me Like moss awakening and attaching Mass awakening and hatching Divine orchestration of the...
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THE ST(R)AIN
By Gemma Green I ask that you keep me around as a courtesy And that courtesy keeps me as pristine as she found me Spry, and with a bundle...
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MIGRATION
By Zaphkiel Feathers ruffled, the bird sits With friends, though they are alone. They want to go home, It is too hot here in the Sun, But...
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DRIFTING MIND
By C.J. These are the words of a drifting mind. My pride, my pain, my guilt...my ever distant muse of fortune. Through the sear of regret...
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THE UNWELCOME TENANT
By Barbara Harris Leonhard What is healing but the stabbing to death of pain, the banishment of shadows, the release of sorrows, the...
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WHAT I WANTED
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....
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CAROUSEL
By Kameron Lo A carousel of misery Twirling in throes of regret Release me from this burdened flesh And self destructive intellect...
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A WILD ROSE
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...
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WHAT ARE YOU THAT COMES BACK TO ME?
By David Valentine I choke down a hundred placebos, Row by row they weekly go, The sugar sweet pseudo-psychosis . . . O Novacaine!...
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THE RACE TO 'CYNGANEDDU'
By Sara Louise Wheeler “The ear is important”, said the tutor – several times. “You hear the stressed vowel”; the hearing, always the...
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ALLEY
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...
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DESPAIR
By Dorota Chioma In the moment of a defeat, In the crisis of a mental breakdown, Abused by its brutality, Left exposed, Vulnerable,...
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SLEEPING SURVIVORS
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...
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THE BONE WITCH
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...
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