By Devane Clarke What do dogs dream about? Muffled whimpers in the night Restless legs thrash the sheet Before rolling over next to your feet Dogs are dreaming it has been said About drinking from the toilet And the lid falls on their head Anxiety dreams perhaps But I think not Anthropomorphize with me instead … Continue reading Dog Dreams
The Deer Leg and The Hard Times Are Over
By Abigail Hagler The Deer Leg The taupe was the color of any branch So I thought it was. But more beautiful than bark. And then, the black and perfect hoof And then, the broken bone Clean and white. Even this small fraction Held the beauty of the whole. Coyote, I think. One lives in … Continue reading The Deer Leg and The Hard Times Are Over
How You Work and Other Poems
By Kait Quinn How You Work after Joan Osborne The way snow lands in an unflourished hush. Tea kettle screams, hazes kitchen tile like fog tucks shore to sleep. Such a normal thing: clean sheets pulled womb warm from the drier; the house sparrow's warble; the way a lung bloats, deflates, distends again. Moon works … Continue reading How You Work and Other Poems
Cuticles Like Chestnuts and Other Poems
By CLS Sandoval Cuticles Like Chestnuts I’ve bitten my cuticles at least since the fourth grade when my teacher told us everyone has a bad habit, and I took it as a directive to start one not knowing that I had plenty others to come in my future I’m just glad that I can’t grow … Continue reading Cuticles Like Chestnuts and Other Poems
Heaven and Home
By Paige Adams Heaven Inside my heart is a longing for home beyond this world where spirits reside between gates of fire a path paved with gold. My soul longs— to the place where eternal love was endless. Home Moments ago, I saw your face. Now I see myself far away. I lie in bed, … Continue reading Heaven and Home
To Earth and Other Poems
By Claire O'Brien To Earth What more can you give me? Only the soft squeak of your sands on my feet, your sea’s sparkle and glint, your sky’s blue and white cotton dress. What more can you give up to me? Only rustling forests with tiny flitting life, ancient stones. I have gleaned all I … Continue reading To Earth and Other Poems
Seen
By Soumya Doralli The dam-water brimmed and splashed, on the periphery of the steel-grey reservoir, a frothy bubbling roaring mass, sealing minds and opening hearts, chock-full of buzzing mouths, I pay no heed to the busybodies, to the arms-in-arms, to the tippy taps, eerie funeral songs for the cadaver, unbridled passion to wake the dead, … Continue reading Seen
A Water Song
By Helen Lemus The ocean calls With a song, A piece Of eternity In a lullaby Soothing me to sleep. Cold, clean water, Salty, Slaps my cheeks, And morning Laughs at me Sleeping While there are so many Seeds To plant. Beneath Warm suns, A sonata Props up My sore soul Straight from the ocean's … Continue reading A Water Song
In-Law
By Elizabeth Allison She brought the orchid to the house when I miscarried the second time to let it speak of loss. Her loss. Scarlet droplets spotting pale yellow petals said “You are my chance.” Fat leaves curling into themselves cried “I’ve only one child. I’ve only one shot.” Wide purple lips, open to prey, … Continue reading In-Law
Bitter Experience and Other Poems
By Katherine Orfinger Bitter Experience (for Oates and Chekhov) and I understand now why Anna held herself to a godly standard and why she needed to make those little lines, their lives seeping together my head, a dim bathroom: she paces. my own soul peers through a speckled mirror a forgotten piece of metal glints … Continue reading Bitter Experience and Other Poems
Academy of the Heart And Mind 