Month: May 2024

My cup overfloweth With glory and pain But complain do not I dare For worse I can’t bear Life so short but my day so long Grin and bear it I try My child with others time spent What more can I rent I watch the minute but the hours I did not see I… Continue reading Read Poem: MORE TIME, by Talin Eshaghoff

When I duct taped you to the wall of the art museum, We printed out the title of our art piece on this fine, White card, the kind that wobbles when you wave it Like a man rocking himself to an unheard song In solitary confinement. A prison? An asylum? Is there a difference? We… Continue reading Read Poem: DAY AT THE MUSEUM, by CS Crowe

I find my recent days filled with mild hypertension and nailbeds stained purple with acrylic paint- or is that a bruise? It’s getting harder to sleep lately, but that’s not unusual. I’ve tossed and turned for as long as I can remember. Uneasy for reasons unknown. Longing for something unnamable. Something new. Normalcy keeps slipping… Continue reading Read Poem: GOODNIGHT MUSE, by Dani Solace

mother are you afraid your nest is too small for new eggs it rattles on windy days the only branch you could afford creaks there never seems to be enough twigs or mud to hold your home together hungry mouths chitter and flap mother are there enough worms to fill their bellies and yours bald… Continue reading Read Poem: WHEN THEY FLEW, by Georgea Jourjouklis

They silenced me so long. I didn’t know I had so much to say. So, I turned my life into a crime scene once I ripped off their red tape. Then they branded me a killer. Turned my mouth into a gun. When I only pulled the trigger for fear of death -in life preservation!… Continue reading Read Poem: BLOWBACK, by Merche Melendez

Ensorcelled on the mortal heart, Each beat, each breath, one less we’ll make. So much afeared, so deep we dread— Of course we pray our soul to take. Despair, some deign, but ne’er forget: The fact of Death defines all Life! Begot, senesce; thy torch then pass. Blood, bone, and wealth left others’ strife. That’s… Continue reading Read Poem: An Ode to Mortality, by Matthew Albertson

Laying in the middle of the floor five centimetres away from a window and its sunshine that swirls beautifully on a dusty sill I am observant yet stagnant petrified for I know what I’ll do of me this solitude has decided to swim to the darkest depth of my red seas in a vertical jump… Continue reading Read Poem: RIP TIDE, by Marcela del Sol

This poem was written many years ago to a woman in Nepal, where anti-abortion laws were so strict that they also included miscarriages and stillbirths, punishable by imprisonment. Since then Nepal has reversed course. What is so ironic is that in many states, American women are currently confronting those same anti-abortion laws, never before having… Continue reading Read Poem; LETTER TO A WOMAN IN PRISON, by Joanne Monte