By Alyssa Trivett You seep, loosely filing into paper pavement and bleeding clear ink. Filled cavity. Flossing into charred broken bottle puzzle piece corners, an art project sifting in a parking lot this hungover evening. Alyssa Trivett is a wandering soul from the Midwest. She chirps down coffee while scrawling lines on the back of gas … Continue reading Parking Lot Puddle
Afternoon Jack
By Alyssa Trivett Afternoon Jack I dub thee, with the cigar hanging out of your mouth, a half-broken toothbrush tree branch lingering over the pool ledge. Old construction and computer equipment take up residence in the back of your mashed up boxcar, glued and gluten free with duct tape, as you glide over those scarred … Continue reading Afternoon Jack
High School Contest Poetry Second Place
Dymond By Shakya Joseph-Hall Meade High School My little girl A rose couldn't compare to your beauty The love I have in my heart for you shines like no other From the time I wake to the time I sleep You are always there for me We rescued you but really You rescued us … Continue reading High School Contest Poetry Second Place
High School Contest Poetry Winner
Grapefruit By Faith Rhodes Oldfields School The colors of a summer night’s sunset, engulfing a sphere. Sprinkles of sugar fall of the sides of the spoon, dancing onto the fiery soul. Once a soul full of rage, now calmed by the dancers. Younglings purse their lips when the sunset rests upon them. A galaxy … Continue reading High School Contest Poetry Winner
Brace For Impact
By John Patrick Robbins I wrote it out perfectly the letter would say that which few ever cared to admit. The news wouldn't shock anyone. Most in all honesty wouldn't bat an eye. Another writer takes his own life leaving behind the page and nothing more. I had no children. I had no wife. I … Continue reading Brace For Impact
I Will Say Goodbye Here
By John Patrick Robbins She read the words and wondered why they could never be about her. Why the stories that made publication never did include one about her. He wrote beautifully about another that wasn't worth a damn while she remained ignored only to share his bed . She knew he loved her but … Continue reading I Will Say Goodbye Here
To The Young Writer
By John Patrick Robbins Live your work but not as I before you. Don't allow a good time become a addiction. Forgive yourself rather than carry the burden of guilt. Don't allow others fucked up actions scar your existence. Never listen to the ignorant that will place there labels upon you. The only true whores … Continue reading To The Young Writer
Poems by James Diaz
Strange Bliss The holy broken turns its face in the half-light again - what's your name again who gave this to you, so much pain I see it there writ on the lines of your face how long's it been since you last stepped outside the shadow of all the stuff that doesn't belong to … Continue reading Poems by James Diaz
Leonard Cohen My Friend
Leonard Cohen My Friend (V2) By Michael Lee Johnson Death is a bitch and a whore comes with hat on or off, Jewish, Christian or lover years ago called Nancy. Death is a passport, a left behind baggage note. My leverage sinks, I see you pass human. These my fears, your fright, being broke, old-royalties … Continue reading Leonard Cohen My Friend
Link
By Ryan Flanagan the living taught light shower gourds broken links for the dead the system down in soil beds crass corners hitched to flame despicable prize for bird-like men parasol flapping ends rock boy legs in a permanent run paper mogul checks his ink catacombs on top of heads x-ray box … Continue reading Link
