By Annabel Reyes Fisher Nourishing focus: empty and hungry he gives us time.. searching alone with one worm on fishing line. Alone or with one another we... forage. Desperation for atonement, We tug on our rod. Questing and questioning incessantly we sit for our lessons..it takes time to mature to see that glorious sunset; there … Continue reading Fisher and Other Poems
Heat of Pearls and Other Poems
By Naveed Siddiqui Heat of Pearls I do not know, if I saved anything for you and I tonight everything slipped, falling away, dripping from my palms, those restless dreams now flow in orbits, alongside streams, walking among ocean beds, so immense, so are in its charms. Look at the stones, once collected, now leave … Continue reading Heat of Pearls and Other Poems
The Encounter
By Richard Edde The sun on my face was warm, gentle and the fall colors of the aspen trees and willows spectacular. I was fishing the Upper Gallatin River just outside Yellowstone Park when I rounded a bend and saw her. She had pulled a nice rainbow from a dark pool and he was doing extraordinary acrobatic … Continue reading The Encounter
Don’t Mind The Paparazzi
By Frank Vallorosi Previously published in The Whiskey Blot Johnny sat at the kitchen table, his right leg moving up and down as if someone had just dropped hot wax on it. He was an edgy person, a trait made more noticeable by his dark, darting eyes. He spotted his mother passing into the kitchen. … Continue reading Don’t Mind The Paparazzi
A Daughter’s Thoughts
By Meg Goldberg May 14, 2023 The 3rd Mother’s Day without my own Her life, snuffed out quietly amongst morphine drips and banned visitations felt extra tragic. 2020 be damned, she must have been so lonely! Overcome by strong emotions, harboring grief, I push it deep down into the darkness of my mind. She would … Continue reading A Daughter’s Thoughts
Before the Maroon King
By Vimal Patel You shall be a wanderer, It shall bless plague, This space will blend, Through mock, burden and legs. This shall be the fate, Of these kiss cursing beds, Forever on the heart, Of that scale shaking dale. Before Maroon king wanders, With a page, A tool of mockery, Then the bite of … Continue reading Before the Maroon King
Currently
By N.T. Chambers I am not the universe as you are not the stars and we are not nearly the tomorrow we once might have been. Just us, now - different and unsure of the neighbors we’d be in a year or the couple people would see in twenty - two people trying to be … Continue reading Currently
The Crown; a clown, a doom and A True Coward
By Unimke Ugbong The Crown; A clown, A doom The crown is a poison When sits upon a clown An entertaining doom It bring upon a kingdom Every poke, be right or wrong Bring about a joke, to the song Then slowly, the song turns to a mourn When all folly, is eaten As a … Continue reading The Crown; a clown, a doom and A True Coward
Letters
By George Michael Brown The year was 1988. My mother had passed away the previous December, my father twenty-seven years before that. I was cleaning out their house, getting it ready to sell; the house I grew up in. I was removing items out of a small room in the basement, hidden behind the furnace, … Continue reading Letters
The parlour stove
By Vahida Berberovic Like so many children of my generation, my brother and I grew up with two working parents, and no one thought too much of leaving children alone at home. My parents had moved to Germany form the then-Yugoslavia, and my mother was keen to work and reap the benefits of earning her … Continue reading The parlour stove
Academy of the Heart And Mind 