Lost in Pavement a bad night sleep, a traffic jam the city swallows hard lost in pavement, don’t tell me who the hell dealt this card the cog is stuck, wheels won't turn crowds are in the way no views to buy can't see the sky, anyway turn off the power, I say it's … Continue reading Poems by Renae Clinton
Fiction by Alex Andy Phuong
Kate Winslet On one Labor Day afternoon, while driving down a Revolutionary Road, a simple, all-American girl named Kate Winslet was searching for something to do for her summer vacation. After driving for several hours, she saw a billboard with the headline, “TITANIC SAILS ONCE MORE!” She hesitantly resisted the urge to buy tickets for … Continue reading Fiction by Alex Andy Phuong
Poems by Alex Andy Phuong
Underrepresentation Minorities Combined with Congruence Parallelism Iridescence Colors Reflecting Diversity Trapped & bound, but still bursting with freedom Bold Be audacious Independent Iridescent Color the world And paint over What is dark Nestled Lives Security vs. Simplicity vs. Audacity (but not recklessness) Some might say That they do not have … Continue reading Poems by Alex Andy Phuong
Poems by Andrew Scott
Mr. Thomas Hello Mr. Thomas, see you sitting like you have been everyday for over the past twenty years, sipping a black coffee in the corner of this old café. Pretending to mind your own. Most of us leave you be, looking over, feeling sorry with the worn clothes your wear. It looks … Continue reading Poems by Andrew Scott
Poems by Paweł Markiewicz
The longing the enticing aspiration is such a golden Apollonian sunshine my muse-like tune of a bosom as the dainty cherubic dreamlet or it is a tender ring that shines at the magnanimous chevalier and it is an embellishment of the metaphysics the dazzling wishfulness is able to long for Herculeanly propitious sea of candles … Continue reading Poems by Paweł Markiewicz
Museum
By Alex Andy Phuong Physical buildings And artistic architecture Holding remnants from the past. Museums hold artifacts Yet artistic expression, Hope And creativity Pave the way for the future. This present moment in time Is the greatest gift of all Because it is, thankfully, not the last. Alex Andy Phuong earned his Bachelor … Continue reading Museum
The Untranslatable: Verschlimmbessern
By Thomas Page This is a series of poems of words that do not directly translate into English. I have tried to capture the essence of the word in a poem. Have you ever tried to put out a fire at a banquet Only to have the reams of white set ablaze after she … Continue reading The Untranslatable: Verschlimmbessern
Autumn Leaves
By Jim Bates We waited off to the side for our order, all three of us quiet, unused to this. Sure, we'd eaten at McDonald's before but not under circumstances like these - me taking Sammy and Elise out after school because I couldn't take them back to what used to be our home. Lynn … Continue reading Autumn Leaves
Poems by Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad
Skittles with planets An amethyst, he said slamming down the prayer beads. talking above the nauseous fumes of camphor and incense he drew skewed circles intersecting subsets - seventeen of them jotting numbers on a paper that presumably charted the rebel trajectory of all the wayward moons and wastrel stars that had driven me to … Continue reading Poems by Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad
A Blinding Light
By Mehreen Ahmed Just when Lizzy Crimson was leaving the art exhibition, a black and white picture hanging on the far side of a wall caught her attention. It was unbelievably mesmerising, and surrealistic. It looked like a downing of the sun at night. But the bright light that it emanated were white and diffused. … Continue reading A Blinding Light
Academy of the Heart And Mind 