By Prema Arasu a loss for the migrating pod is a revel for worms far below in sunless seas where the song fades sleeper-sharks rend the...

By Katerina Neocleous  Advisory guidance to be read in conjunction with local practice to prepare bereft parties of the departed: Section...

By Redde Michaels I didn’t tell you that Dad died. I was surprised when you woke me tonight – calling as a brother might. Like you did...

By Cody Draco so what if my specter can be seen skinny-dipping in the River Styx haunting the hell in which you held me while raising a...

By Sean M. Palfrey She spoke in quatraines    Trying to decipher her future Making no predictions Only glimpses of a fate Half-promised...

By Alicia Lennon That worm, the one making its way inside of the apple. Do you see the life built through ruin. Envision the devastation,...

By Stormie Harley   This may be the most devastating thought I have had. Do you think both of us are at the end of our lives? Like a cat...

By Damen O'Brien On the busiest day of the year, even harder than the shifts of stomach pumping, of broken legs, gravel-rash Christmas...

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...