Month: May 2024

A madman crushed her favorite makeup To paint my mother’s floor. Imagine rouge On top of powders, scattered door to door. “I’ll clean this up!” I say till she’s relieved, Obedient enough to swallow her Tart, medicated, Lotos-like ice cream. She’s less combative, calmed by her morphine. The mind’s embrasures, freed from pain’s embrace, Will… Continue reading Read Poem: Mother on Morphine, Dreaming of Anna Magnani, by LindaAnn LoSchiavo

I am butter I am lonely I am raw I will never Know love I have A Flavor of Rage That has a Curdle Pyre Circling my dreams Haunting my Life I could never marry I could never birth a Life All my Ephemera Is so scary Inside me It’s like See When I vomit… Continue reading Read Poem: ISAAC, by Stella Gleitsman

commentary on leaving home to live our feet are clapping against the unknown cottage floor our sweats are watering the many farm leaves our fears keep us running our fast-beating hearts keep the troubles within us alive & we run & run away from our homeland to a land free from bombing

Hold me. Form a crescent on my body Hold me. Send your fingers through my hair on a voyage that sails the heart. Hit my soul with the lightning of your vigorous love. Strike me. Hit me with those waves of motherly compassion. Those fruit hills of delicious carefully placed kisses. Destroy all my old… Continue reading Read Poem: HOLD ME, by Justin Taylor

Scents cascade upon you From soft vanilla of your lotionshed friend To the acidic sweat of a overlay passionate basketball game But there’s also the sterile sight of your sister hospitals room The metallic tang of yourself released blood You can taste the pepper in your grandmother’s soup Feel every grain in your mothers undivided… Continue reading Read Poem: A LETTER TO MY BODY, by Greta Lee

Ever aware that life moves so quickly, I fear times slipping away while in them. Questioning who of those whose smiles light my day, Will become ghosts of my past whom I think of only on rainy days. Will the tie be severed all at once, Or so slowly that I forget how deep was… Continue reading Read Poem: Yours Forever and Ever, by Alicia Aranyi

Golden and white feathers, each individual, Combining in one, stretched and waned, wing e holies glide from ray to ray in the sun’s shine Casting their radiance on any lucky, lost child With them brings summer and clear airs A cooling breeze, a burning plasmid sun With it brings a certain intolerance to winter and… Continue reading Read Poem: HOLIER THAN THOU, by Evangelyne Storm

I walk towards a flickering light, half-seen across a dune, following the sounds of laughter, and an off-key tune. The beach pulls at my shoes, with a dozen grasping hands: the grip of the dead, from ships lost on these sands. I smell burning cedar, along with another exotic scent; someone’s roasting ganja, at a… Continue reading Read Poem: Bonfire, by George Morris

and, you see the mirage as the mirage that it is reincarnate unlock the coop learn even daunted chickens can fly a little

They say there’s nothing to be done About a gun Riddled with anxiety, our children’s knees bounce and their fingers tap It’s the phones, the distractions, the shiny things It’s kids today There’s nothing to be done About a gun Basic numbers are escaping them They know nothing Why does no one read anymore? These… Continue reading Read Poem: THERE’S NOTHING TO BE DONE, by Amanda Reseburg