By Brenda Mox Dark skies full of lightningflashing like a strobeas clouds blinkand rain runs in sheetsagainst window panesthen drips to puddles that sinkin sandy loamwhere grass blades holdthe deluge.Gale force winds,strong and unwavering,wield bent lances clashing like thunderthrough strobe blinking cloudsdropping blankets of rainin a banshee danceover hills and plains. Brenda Mox is a … Continue reading The Deluge
Lost Footage
By Hannah Andrews In the summer that followed the summer of loveSweet Chicago smoldered, Ensconced in ashesLeft dreamless over a lost KingHopeless after another lost KennedyAnd yet, amidst a seeming apocalypseIn that slow-broiling chaos of ‘68Boy met girl as they are prone to do And together Tumbled intoSomething akin to, in the neighborhood, of love. … Continue reading Lost Footage
Time Slows in a World of Our Own
By Olivia Benson Time feels irrelevant when compared to the minute ticking of our hearts. A beating love, a tired clock. Tomorrow I will leave again, and today is only a couple hours strong. We stay up to get drunk and watch each other laugh. I forget my responsibility to time, and you are bewildered … Continue reading Time Slows in a World of Our Own
Loneliness
By Liz Sorora As the wind blows the leaves awayI left with it go a silent prayA day to come that you will be missingAnd your silent ghost won't be reminiscingAlone to be as out and withinYour haunting voice no longer echoingYet if that happens, what would I beWithout your soul resting in meEmpty with … Continue reading Loneliness
Well-Water
By Lauren Goulette Now wringing up well-water where we brushed ourold mouse’s ashes across. He wasthere and we loved himwhen he still lapped it up. Black-tail on his bloated body slushedwhen we found him. We drinkgallons of well-water and leavean orange-ring around ourmouths when it’s dryand can’t bother to fillanother bucket. This houseis eaten alive … Continue reading Well-Water
Infinite Blue and Other Poems
By T.F. Jennings Infinite Blue I don’t understand any of it.The moon, the ocean, this spinning rock. You name it. We sit overlooking the coastline high up on a knoll that was made seemingly just for us.The sun hangs in its usual mooringslike an ornate figurehead spilling its soupy light into the water below. A … Continue reading Infinite Blue and Other Poems
Beaches
By Rita McDermott Kicking back on a brightly colored, oversized beach towel Feeling the warmth of the sun and salt water residue on my skin Looking skyward at clear, blue skies and white wispy clouds Grey colored waves with white frothy tips pound the shore A colony of seagulls cry and swoop, like kamikazee pilots, … Continue reading Beaches
The Light to My Darkness
By Rowan Moskowitz During one summer night in the year of 1970, a young man was camping out in the woods, an activity he often did when needing a break from the stress and fears of the world around him. The blonde haired boy with soft green eyes, known as Jackson Talroy, always found a … Continue reading The Light to My Darkness
Don’t Fill Your Sky With Too Many Birds and A Love Letter to My Lake
By Leigh-Anne Burley Don't Fill Your Sky With Too Many Birds and A Love Letter to My Lake Don’t fill the sky with too many birdswings touching wings leave no room for flightDon’t fill your sky with too many dreamsDreams need time to be bathed and soakedDon’t fill your sky with too many promisesPromises have … Continue reading Don’t Fill Your Sky With Too Many Birds and A Love Letter to My Lake
House With No Windows
By Tegan Anders The Girl is alone in her House without windows, and it swallows her whole. She is alone in her House without windows, and this room is too bright. The next room is too dark. The Girl and the House live here together, within one another. She haunts this House, and this House … Continue reading House With No Windows
Academy of the Heart And Mind 