By Helga Lockheart I found myself drawn to his darkness, while he was enchanted by my light. As we tried to bridge the gap between us, we...

By Kevin Childs As I lie with you on our bed The sheet all wrapped around us Like a crumpled veil, Venus Has made a crown of your hair,...

By Isabel Mya I threw out an old pair of socks today. This shouldn’t be a big deal, but I’ve never been good at letting things go....

By Emma Jessen Fish on the pavement, eyes startled, tail thrashing. one walks by, others follow, all looking, noticing, considering, not...

By Adam Cullen You're going 120km/ph, Yet going in circles,  Not making any distance,  Just burning fuel,    You feel panicked,  Wired...

By Kerry Gallagher Your words carve a Chelsea smile Into my retorts Blood spills like water falls Before my eyes I Find that truth lies...

By Jason Lingard i. A disco ball ghost, slips into a serpent sea —sex and salt-flavoured.   ii. Medusa orgy— Anxiety, shedding skin....

By Jo Syz An ancient attic lies untouched, save my six paces across a dead skin carpet, flowing sun dappled to the crumbling eaves.   A...

By Dewan Hookeimen Hundreds of their ironclad raw corpses carpet the floor around me. It’s not that I like their brackish taste. It’s...

By Judy Koot I am the spindle that woke up the sleeper. I am the slipper that ruined the dance. I am the torchlight that unhid the...

By Dana Collins asks teacher how babies are made worries she’s going to pop open loses hide and seek again wipes herself up with tissue...

By Andrew Darling You contemplate the final poem somewhere in late night/ early morning. Beauty has drained   from the divine and the...

By Amelia Nayar I found another leech. Black. Red. Lard. Moving. Living. on the Hollow of my ankle. It keeps eating It...

By Katrina J. Paddock Worlds have ended at this crossroads Worlds have ended, are ending:   with knives in bellies with life in bellies...

By DeAnne LeBlanc they fly one by one tricked by their own reflection and the mirrored sky   they believe they are flying through not...

By Bob W Christian Forty years, an eternity carved into flesh, Each second a ghost haunting the corners of my mind. In the mirror, I see...

By Rebecca Eanes A dreadfully dark night, it was, the night it came to pass. A wicked chill held to the air, a storm was coming fast.  ...

By Kaitlyn Gutzke draped around your shoulders clinging to your bones? You wear it so well – what's the occasion? I felt your fingernails...

By Alan Dunnett This was after the shops had closed.  I knew at once that the empty streets would never be filled again. I thought for a...

By Fabian Wadsworth Despair lives in the belly like too much salt rusting our machinery to a stiffness until we can no longer move...