By Luna Brown I saw your skin constrict like a snake, Making me believe In places existing far beyond culpability. A vulnerable witness...

By Rosie Aziz There was no weather the day we pulled the body from the lake.   The parting of water, silkiness giving way to slope of...

By Stonehead It arrives mid-morn, as they often do, clean, uncreased, no postage due. No sender, no seal, no ink to betray the unseen...

By Andrew Burkey She called from the graveyard and whispered to death. ...

By Azka I looked at death twice— once as a child, and once as a teen. PTSD lives inside my veins, recollections of flashbacks I don’t...

By Di Hills Dame Garson, famed on a forest of wounds and fevers for turning herself into a runaway hare, blink twice and she’d evaporate...

By Jilly Johannsen The first time I saw it hung on an IV pole; a bag of endometrichunk With little handles and a whatsit dripping down A...

By Noel King In her son’s room      she found white porcelain inkwells           he’d stolen from his school.                Feeling...

By Florin Rosca He fell into this reality With the splashing of blood, Fresh chaos.   The smells, dripping and crazy Grabbed and drowned...

By Jacqueline Taylor Broken bottles Feet oozing blood It’s all a mess in my head Raining down buckets of sweat Steamed windows freezing...

By Fry Kemper I've been thinking about you girl And i know that it’s been weeks Itching Crazy, sweating buckets I’m as cleaned up as my...

By Maggie Elliott We had a change of Government who vowed to do their best To help the working people feel well and truly blessed But...

By NK.A.Hwaet Doffing the chagrining vestments, his hat falls on the gentlewoman. Undisciplined eyes sheathe me— a fury, armed with...

By Danny Neff As I lay here on the counter 

hoping you find me tonight 

my edge is sharp and longing 

for your touch. 


   The taste...

By Stephen Chappell Friends think it must be fun: transgressive, exciting, my consulting room full of unleashed erotics.   In fact it’s...

By Jeff H Martin I saw her before her wedding day. She said, ‘I pray you forget me and go far away.’ I didn't listen, in the county I...

By Sam Vallius I want to strip my feelings away in the act of dance.   I want to strip every inch of my clothes off, To dance in front of...

By D P Robinson Where Junks ride idle on the swell of a shimmering Siam Sea, while rock n’ roll anthems broadcast through my dark, and...

By Ping Yi Yee The sky outside the plane today has a ceiling, like in Vegas – the Bellagio,  no, Caesar’s Palace. Michelangelo’s done a...

By Kate Naylor A fleeing double take: ‘Have I met you before?’ Energies aligned- a soul recognition, neither of us could ignore. Like...