By George Keye Prologue Meet our personified friends: Leticia Callaghan, Sean Holtz and Cuco. Leticia Callaghan is a self-contained organism. All the tissues and organs and cells from which the past human body has been composed are self-generated as well as self-adapted and they are considered essential to any environment include the most dare … Continue reading The Burrow
The Broken Door List and Ghost Stories with My Grandpa
By Riley Winchester The Broken Door List I was in the kitchen filling an ice cube tray with water when I heard the front door being ripped apart. I went to the front door and saw it coming undone from the bottom up. On the other side I could see the undoers. There was a … Continue reading The Broken Door List and Ghost Stories with My Grandpa
Heaven’s Window
By George Keyes A MORNING’S HAND Afaaf opened her eyes. It was morning, or was it really the middle of the evening? As she wondered, she turned on the wooden bed, not yet fully awake, a hundred of birds playing in the backward, and those earthly sounds from the ravine reached her as if they … Continue reading Heaven’s Window
Vivacity and Other Poems
By Alex Andy Phuong Vivacity Vivacious Stupendous Spirits high Defy thy sky More than I For the lively Live freely Lift oneself Be thyself No matter what city Or residence Where one resides For the world Is the home of all Ritual Sunrise sunset Sunrise sunset Cyclical cycle Begin again And again Darkness giving way … Continue reading Vivacity and Other Poems
The Dragon
By John Page The cave shakes The dragon wakes Into the sky it flies Tomorrow someone shall die The dragon seeks it’s foe Where it is, it does not know In it’s heart is a burning need To avenge a most foul deed The sky races by as the dragon looks It will get back … Continue reading The Dragon
Where the Water Falls and Other Poems
By John Grey Where the Water Falls It cascades silver and foam from craggy heights down the rutted black face of sheer cliff. On contact with the river, in endless hiss, it replaces itself with more of itself. It cannot tie a shoelace, row a boat or boil a kettle. It merely does what I … Continue reading Where the Water Falls and Other Poems
After the Sandstorm and Other Poems
By Danae Younge After a Sandstorm Your peck extracts remaining wind from a cooled forehead. The ruins pile up before us, meld like a glaring flame pinched on the horizontal landscape, a solute to the wallpaper. Yet the overlapping eye of our circular universes squints further with mine as I look at you, as we … Continue reading After the Sandstorm and Other Poems
Ms. Violet
By Danae Younge We ran through the dark, the bottoms of our shoes sinking into the sand with every step. Terry was too excited to allow that to slow her down, though, she raced towards the moving beam of light which rotated steadily from the lighthouse like a planet on orbit, illuminating little slivers of … Continue reading Ms. Violet
World Away and Other Poems
By Allison Grayhurst World Away World away of hollows where light escapes, gets through, flourishes in the sluggish dream of humans. World of many layers – up to pure communion and down with the languishing un-animal beasts. Rivers that flow and merge, travel down. Oceans rise up, their surfaces new, surfaces discovered – air, sometimes … Continue reading World Away and Other Poems
Gecko
By Fred Miller What a queer little fellow you are,your head cocked in question to my presence.If toe pads I had, I'd leap to your perchto see what you world's all about.Do I hear a click, a chirp?In defiance of me, I suspect.Oh, I'd lift that tail to show who's whoif unaware of your ability … Continue reading Gecko
Academy of the Heart And Mind 