By Jacqueline McAleer the shining I can see your hands from across the cemetery(I always knew we were similar Wandering insomniacs in the moonlight Not upset, just disturbed)But what I can’t reason Is how they came to be so red, so bright I’d kill for hands that proud Even among all these dead things, lives … Continue reading the shining and Other Poems
Delicate Blossoms
By emurence The skies are low and cloudy Accompanied by a friendly breeze Painting our universe with shades Of dust like we’re celebrating a carnival while I was drifting far away in my thoughts So drunk in love we were practically floating off the ground My heart jumps out and dances in jubilance to the … Continue reading Delicate Blossoms
Go Home, Holden Caulfield
By Jackie Chou Leave the sleazy lights of the city,and do your homework.Forget the rye fields.The children on the cliffswill be chaperoned by their parents,and the ones who do fallwill more likely be missedthan being caught.For every hero offering his arms,there will be a crowdstanding around watching,doing nothing.Knowing you,you would not likethe phoniness of it … Continue reading Go Home, Holden Caulfield
Life Goes On, Your Memory Still Lives
By Jordan Aguiar The tide still comes in, crashing on our favorite beachI remember when we used to watch it together, holding hands, breathing in the ocean airWhen I want to remember you, I go and watch the tide come in.The leaves still fall, making a big mess covering the ground you lay I remember … Continue reading Life Goes On, Your Memory Still Lives
Limb and Language and Other Poems
By Miree Antar Limb and Language Turning hands back and forth, elbow arches and the little purple marks from years gone— what more is there to grab onto?Like cats posted by the window, what’s worth absorbing? When every idea and structure is half made and out of reach?I’ve learned more from burning fingers than anything … Continue reading Limb and Language and Other Poems
Something So Elementary
By Joely Ramo If energy (you) can not be created Than energy (you) can not be destroyed because energy (you) are atoms and atoms (you) are the basic units of chemical elements you are gasses you are liquids you are solids sounds simple almost basic… yet, this law of nature is the most significant affirmation … Continue reading Something So Elementary
Friday Morning Pickup
By Anna DeVizia As I’m leaving in the morning, I notice that my neighbor has haphazardly placed an old television on their curb, the kind that resembles a big shoebox, weathered gray plastic encasing a dull glass mirror that likely once reflected the smiling, pink faces of children on a chilly Christmas morning.I think of … Continue reading Friday Morning Pickup
The Echo
By Dennis Williams The Echo The echo travels to the end of the woods Disturbing the peace of my dog and I Suddenly I saw shaggy covering his ears The trees beside me shaking Leaves drooping Water whirling.My peace was disturbed My skin frizzle And my tooth was set on edge.My heart weptEspecially for the … Continue reading The Echo
The youngest, only child
By Meghan Goss I am my dad’s youngest and my mom’s only. But I feel like both sometimes. Never really at the same time. Both the youngest and the only are spoiled. I am spoiled. But what are physical things if I don’t have my siblings to enjoy those things with. The youngest has older … Continue reading The youngest, only child
We, the Inns
By Sahar Imteyaz History—she is partial.She remembers the travellers,The roads they walked,Their journeys’ beginnings And their journeys’ ends.But, we, the Inns—Are forgotten.You find us on every road—On plain, smooth roadsAnd dusty, broken roads.Travellers cross their thresholdsAssured in their heartsOf finding us on the way—The balm of vigour for wearied limbs.Yes, we, the Inns,Forgotten as we … Continue reading We, the Inns
Academy of the Heart And Mind 