By Ryan Quinn Flanagan Midges We are being good Canadians. Saving up all our recycling until it piles over and we have to drive out to the recycling place by the water treatment plant. And we have to drive deep into the woods. The windows rolled up because of the bugs. Swarms of midges that … Continue reading Midges and Other Poems
The Flames and Other Poems
By Arundhati Rakshit The Flames And the anguished flames rise once more In revolt, In chorus, In rebellious crackles. For who dares so much as to Set on a journey, A journey betrothed to Forgetful wayfarers, A journey never-ending, And yet that seeks to Transcend into the Realms of a surreal cadenza? … Continue reading The Flames and Other Poems
Cats and Other Poems
By Alex Andy Phuong Cats Jellicle cats Classic musical Evolving via Biological evolution Along the passage of time Flying high on trapeze Blowing like a breeze Witness the story Unfold As T.S. Eliot’s cats Hope to defy aging Even though getting older Is normal Unlike the cats conceived by Painters, poets, and musical directors … Continue reading Cats and Other Poems
Droit du Seigneur
By Paul Siekor I’d spent my pocket money on a copy of Michener’s The Source. I loved the gleaming candelabrum on the cover. I admired the book’s Dickensian, Biblical length, its comforting heaviness in my hand. I anticipated taking it to bed for hours of reading, engrossed in its folds the smell of new-book print … Continue reading Droit du Seigneur
The Invisible Speaks and Other Poems by Erika Kamlert
The Invisible speaks You said you wanted to hear all of the grotesquely fascinating details and clichés Like the bright red inside of the earliest morning, so early it’s almost still night And the abysmal bed of wet and dirt, so dirty it’s almost hard and then her pure cunning, so bad it’s almost good … Continue reading The Invisible Speaks and Other Poems by Erika Kamlert
Poems by Mark O. Decker
Always We Want More To hear, in the winds, the sounds of riches, is to begin wanting, aching, for more wealth, more riches; but, what are riches to a man who has everything that is important; They are nothing, mere specs of sand in the proverbial hourglass of time; Only the fool drops his real … Continue reading Poems by Mark O. Decker
Running to Find the Me in Me
By Elizabeth Sams I feel disconnected and dismayed/ on this roller coaster ride/ but you love roller coasters/ what I thought/ we were going to do today/ in my milky way of thought/ is not what you thought/ and that seems/ to happen so often now/ the disconnect/ the complexity/ the widening river running through/ the dissonance/ … Continue reading Running to Find the Me in Me
Poems by Mark O. Decker
I Will Bring Joy I want to sing, a song of life, and rhyme the words that fly like kites from mind to page, and page to mind; I want to bring the joy I know, to all I love, so I can show how deeply moved i am that you are here with me, … Continue reading Poems by Mark O. Decker
Drama & Drama 2
By Thomas R. Bates DRAMA Again I go to the park To try and photograph A singing Song Sparrow, A passing Myrtle Warbler, or A tiny Ruby-Crowned Kinglet. Waiting a while for something to Happen, something finally does. Overhead I hear a tremendous Ruckus and a flapping of wings And see a pair of aggressive … Continue reading Drama & Drama 2
From the Depth of my Grave
By Arti Rai I'm burried under the soil now resting in peace , rains have shed flood of tears , drops seeped onto my breathless body , I thought nature cried . A headstone showing human words would console my lying layers of earth I would heap over my brutal bones getting brawn . In … Continue reading From the Depth of my Grave
Academy of the Heart And Mind 