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...

By Allan J. Manson I lie a lot. Only about important things, to people I love. I cheated on your mother but to be fair, she cheated on...

By Jade M. Wong If I hang from a chandelier of ice, Will the cold seep into my bloodstream first, Like the harbinger of a frozen curse?...

By Tyler Ray Black Water washes on the shores of my mind. Searching but not finding, forever blind. Vast empty beaches stretch to the...

By Marina Zrnic In the woods the summer dies. It howles and whistles as broken dignity, such is the night of the autumn equinox. The...

By Hokus Grey There is not much time. The dark tide is coming, rising, like a wall, full of souls and smelling of death. Sticking to us;...

By Elina Tasioula Extended plays on an old cassette These fun gals live to learn Sally's ladies on a featurette Tonight the johns are...

By Paul Adam Short When I sought your acceptance The only words I heard Were slick-black and cloying Spat with furnace-heat People talk...

By Tassia Dorsamy In the darkness she shed In the darkness she bled Muffled painful sound echoing in her mind Constricted heart blinding...

By Chris Foster "You can be anything you want!" And parents tell children not to lie. Sweet dreams child. Growing up is hard, But wait...

By Georgia Lisette This body of water Swallows bodies of our daughters, bones of our sons. Unforgiving, dark, forbidding, Rolling roar at...

By Joseph Edward Johnson Pouring blood ran into the temple foundation, The heathens had forfeited their salvation. They cried aloud...

By Ailish NicPhaidin She stood tall and strong and willowy She matched the grace of Leonardo The clarity of Picasso The lyrics of...

By Barbara Harris Leonhard A house that grows taller may collapse or be reborn, its brick spine realigned, & new colors applied to the...

By Rhiannon Higgins My heart shivers Like a little dog in Its bone cage Be it the lack of meds Or the incense I huff Like cigarettes...

By Martin Jones We were fishing off dānus brēhwā, too humble to call a bridge, casting for perch and pickerel and talking such nonsense...

By Jade Walker The land has created me To end all of mankind The trees sing through me They tell me it is time For revenge to be stricken...

By Jerrad Peters My heart breaks every day Is it too much What did Trent Reznor say “The only thing that’s real” But I remember...

By M.E.G. Icy claws prise my soul from its body, scooped hollow dirty spoon on the draining board, an empty shell left to wander daily...

By D. D. The beautiful roses Are dead, once picked up, Bearing from the root. The rest are remorse Delayed. Lovely petals, Withering in...