By Michael Charles Auty in the blue grey, silver sleeting day walls of solid water make white the lawn, the way of hail, no longer...

By Samantha K. Collinson I wonder what will lift this siege of suffering, quaking inside my shards.   You betrayed the depths of my...

By Amanda Andrews The day her father died, she laid at the beach with her back pressed to the sandy shoreline and the soles of her feet...

By Anthony Watts Windows thrown open in vain – indoors and out the same breathless density of heat (nightfall bringing no relief) and...

By M.M.Wake In chrome-lit streets I drink despair, love’s ghost warm on my tongue. Your eyes, twin knives, unravel me a martyr to...

By M.M.Wake I wanted stars, got an empty pint glass, cigarette ash and a stranger’s coat. They left at closing, I stayed watching...

By M.M.Wake The rain’s black tongue licks the roof raw. Pipes rattle with ghosts of women who left and never came back. My belly...

By M.M.Wake I buried my name in coal-dust soil, fed it rainwater and grief. Roots coiled round my marrow, petals pressed prayers to a...

By M.M.Wake I wake with dirt in my teeth, hands smelling of fight. Last night’s liquor still growls in my gut. Love? That’s a joke ...

By Alexandru Gabriel Piron I'm dying to ask you: If you were the one in my head, Would you have coped with the evil echoes? Would you have become their corypheus in the end? I can't wait to admit it to you: I find a sick pleasure Inside my abject mind.. I like violence, I have never known anything more familiar. The desire to break objects and Disfigure disgusting faces, Faces defined by inelegance and arrogance. People like you certainly wouldn't understand, What it's like t

By Kerry Willis You watched me bear my heart and soul over something that was out of my control Sitting there, so majestic on your high...

By Veris Marock I’m in love with dead worlds, desolate scapes of stone and ruin aching to be heard, screaming in songs  that ring silent...

By John D. Kelly She tells him he’s terribly   attractive   as she flashes her steely-blue eyes like scalpel- blades numbing him, dumbing...

By Matthew Kaleb McLaren Day after day, I lie alone in my room,  Day after day, my mind is my tomb, Day after day, I lie alone in my bed,...

By Hannah Hogan Turned   inside-out, fury catches in the chest serpents twisting, pain searing - sun, blistering shadows, solid lines -...

By Bethany Jade McDonnell You mentioned her name once, you mentioned her name once and now I know, her favourite song her date of birth,...

By Nadia Beckett In the clinch of twilight where illusions decay Beneath the cold gaze of the moonlit display Silhouettes stretch long...

By Stavria Lous the first time, you kissed me like you had a soul — I mistook you for a human. You fucked me like a void, and then I knew...

By Georgia Bailey i’ve       seriously     tried to    swallow you        before .         The   pips were     the hardest    parts ,  ...

By Philip Youden In the backwoods of New Brunswick a body is buried, face down in a concrete grave. A farm girl found guilty of...