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We are a literary magazine run by John Page, Thomas Page, and Jessica Ricks.
February 6, 2023January 11, 2023 academyoftheheartandmind Art, Painting

Dots

By Channie Greenberg

February 5, 2023January 11, 2023 academyoftheheartandmind Essays, non-fiction, Other

The Last Leaf

By Donald Guadagni The dog days of summer linger, hot languid air settles one more time. When a breeze arrives the leaves on the trees sluggishly wave as their colors become less vivid with each passing day. The equinox approaches and all of nature prepares for the transitions of the seasons, soon it will be … Continue reading The Last Leaf

February 4, 2023January 19, 2023 academyoftheheartandmind Fiction, Poetry

Haiku for Grandma

By Sun ShihMin Prunus* burns hard Await You come into her great—light—rustling arms *NotePrunus: Prunus taiwaniana Hayata :Endemic, in the central part of Taiwan. Also called Wusheh cherry. Dashing gurgling river Between the approaching dark and dawn A crane taking off Silent chime unfold: Dazzling home lanterns summer night Back home— Sun, Shih-Min ( H.S ) … Continue reading Haiku for Grandma

February 3, 2023January 11, 2023 academyoftheheartandmind Fiction, Poetry

Tears

By Peace Tree Poetry Have you touched the rain and let its pearls tapdance on your skin? a reminder that salvation rests with those who see beauty in a storm like the eyes of a museum observer in love with art. how often the drifting winds toss droplets onto umbrellas, how often people fear water … Continue reading Tears

February 2, 2023January 11, 2023 academyoftheheartandmind Fiction, Poetry

Better and Other Poems

By Chidozie Okonkwo Better I could do it better —teach you how to undo small things that take up big parts. —swim back to the land of origins, and become the ideal plot in the emotional narrative of the gods. We will dream dreams and take flights —of ecstasy and of glee. We will meditate … Continue reading Better and Other Poems

February 1, 2023January 11, 2023 academyoftheheartandmind Fiction, Poetry

I Carry Their Dreams and Songs of Water

By Tajudeen Muadh Akanbi I Carry Their Dreams I carry them in my arms-the death of my blood, I carry them, as they dangled on my forsaken shoulders, after hugging with servitude and pain and neglect, that seems like an apparition of dead hopes. I saw arsenals knocking on my gates of peace, I saw … Continue reading I Carry Their Dreams and Songs of Water

January 31, 2023January 11, 2023 academyoftheheartandmind Fiction, Poetry

Poem for Henry

By Jean Baur The first night it rained I thought of you In the garden, Getting wet, And the mother in me Wanted to bring you in. Wrapped in the orange towel Paws tucked together–you are Just the way you slept on the couch Except now you’re silent In the raw earth. I will plant … Continue reading Poem for Henry

January 30, 2023January 11, 2023 academyoftheheartandmind Fiction, Poetry

What Could Have Been?

By David L Painter It was not so much as to who he was but what he might have been. Somehow the time seemed to have slipped by until 30 years had passed. Years of rising each morning clenching a black lunch pail spending 10 hours down in the steel mill only to return at … Continue reading What Could Have Been?

January 29, 2023January 11, 2023 academyoftheheartandmind Fiction, Poetry

Dust and Other Poems

By Frances Gaudiano Dust I found the champagne bottle in the garage, Under your worktable. It was covered in dust, but still intact. A gift to us when we moved here, Was it only last year? I should have wiped the bottle clean. Instead, I tore off the foil and unwired the cork. I freed … Continue reading Dust and Other Poems

January 28, 2023January 11, 2023 academyoftheheartandmind Fiction, Poetry

I Cost $19.99 and Other Poems

By Travis Weis I Cost $19.99 A raincoat drowns In a never-ending sea. I wonder if it remembers The shoulders it once protected, Or the winds it once broke. Does it know That nobody Will ever touch it again. Then I remember, Raincoats aren’t supposed To think of these things. And so, I go to … Continue reading I Cost $19.99 and Other Poems

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