By JK Miller Birth: I was born with buttocks intact, thank God, in Ann Arbor, the same place my grandfather once, in the amphitheater of the medical school, showing off his speed in delivering a baby by cesarean, sliced the baby's buttocks with his scalpel. Race: What am I? My grandparents on my mother's side … Continue reading Census
Three Micro Poems by Tabassum Tahmina Shagufta Hussein
Coronation of Despair My love, I will make you the Empress of my heart under the greenwood tree. I will decorate your neck with the garland of wild flowers. Before you sit in the throne, I will spread the Longing of my heart in the path. I shall coronation you with tears of my despair. … Continue reading Three Micro Poems by Tabassum Tahmina Shagufta Hussein
Poems by Margarita Serafimova
Apotheosis The radiant shadows of the clouds, great, were standing on the invisible depths. Life, as always, was in the halls of the ending. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The sun is burning the summer for a new beginning. Only cicadas in their symphonic madness quite know what that means. ____________________________ A dance they were, under … Continue reading Poems by Margarita Serafimova
Poetry
By Lynn Long As I wander in dream Searching for you Often I'm lost Between real and truth For there lies a space in which my heart resides... A place of longing- deep inside And, I wonder as I wander- who will be found- The soul ever seeking or the heart ever bound... Lynn … Continue reading Poetry
weekend in Old St. Charles
By Wanda Morrow Clevenger at the Amerisports Bar & Grill a flurry of females in flapper frocks condoms glued to the bride’s veil Wanda Morrow Clevenger lives in Hettick, IL. She use to keep small birds but they continued to commit suicide on her watch. Now she randomly kills orchids.
Academy of the Heart And Mind 