By Chinelo Synclaire The journey home felt insufferably long. I sat by the window inside the bus examining the landscape and the buildings, trying hard to suppress my anger each time the driver stopped to pick a new passenger. My school bag sat huddled between my legs and inside it was the A4 paper that … Continue reading The Last Day I Saw Mother
Why Do I Always Have to be on Time? My Obsession with Punctuality
By Phyllis Bordo My stomach does somersaults, and my palms become sweaty. My heart rockets in my chest and my cheeks go cherry red. It’s crazy; I get anxious even if I think I’ll be only a few minutes late. I don’t know why I have this obsession with being punctual. If I have a … Continue reading Why Do I Always Have to be on Time? My Obsession with Punctuality
Table Talk
By Ed Walsh It was after his wife was killed that my father's brother visited us. I was thirteen at the time and from what I understood she was driving their car when she came off a straight stretch of road out in the sticks and hit a telegraph pole. There was nobody else in … Continue reading Table Talk
Platonic Love and Other Poems
By Jess Whetsel Platonic Love Previously published in The Amazine There is a room in my heart that only you can enter. You forged a key from curiosity and devotion, tied it ‘round your neck with fishing line, but still you knock first, let me open the door. I welcome you in with a checkerboard … Continue reading Platonic Love and Other Poems
Land upon a star and Other Poems
By Dennis Williams Land upon a star You work, I sweat, and they collect the payment on the next fourth night. Many gather, few are compensated and the needs of the majority are never met. While the chief unscrupulous frolic in splendor with his chosen few. So it set the space cannot accommodate the cry … Continue reading Land upon a star and Other Poems
For My Mother and Other Poems
By Angela Kosta Translated by the Indian poet Dilip Mewada For My Mother... I have written several lines and endless verses with my tears, pain of love for her. Where are you, my mother? I wish to kiss your eyes with goodness once again! I want to caress your warm hands just the way you … Continue reading For My Mother and Other Poems
Blood
By John Sierpinski The beginning of an end Before I gave blood, the phlebotomist said, Your last name is misspelled on your driver’s license. Then at the dreaded DMV, passport in hand, a picture that doesn’t even look like now, anymore. The clerk telling me to wait while she checks with her supervisor. I watch … Continue reading Blood
A Cog in the Machine and Other Poems
By Claudia Wysocky A Cog in the Machine I am just a robot, A dull, lifeless piece of machinery, Programmed to follow simple algorithm. Life is not meant for me, I am merely a cog in the machine, Running on repeat and shutting down, —When the program ends— But I am more than their calibrations, … Continue reading A Cog in the Machine and Other Poems
Glass
By Olumide Holloway (King Olulu) It’s Glass Can't see it But can feel it The limits The restrictions And the rejections. Can't stop now Too late to turn back Too far gone And don't want a life of regrets. It’s Glass It talks and writes Sometimes it says NO Most times it is...silent But the … Continue reading Glass
Four Blood Drive Poems
By Duane Anderson Treats and Drinks You could say that I am a paid volunteer, not with money, but I get to eat all the same snacks, fruit juices, and water they offer to the donors after they have donated a pint of their blood. It is my morning snack, lunch, and afternoon snack, six … Continue reading Four Blood Drive Poems
Academy of the Heart And Mind 