By Stephen Kingsnorth Swaddling It was summer when she passed - we knew come spring she would not last. But as fresh buds broke from dead wood, the tree stump bark cork cambium erupted, unexpected growth, we set our minds to recreate, wrapped in those tie-dyes, student years, free spirited, our crazy route - wherever … Continue reading Swaddling and Other Poems
I Wonder and Bread on Water
By Amrita Valan I Wonder If I had been a flower And you had picked the hue I wonder, if you'd let me be The brightest shade of blue? If I had been your hummingbird And you my song did choose I wonder, would you have picked a song That crooned my deepest blues? If … Continue reading I Wonder and Bread on Water
Blue She Was and Other Prose Poems
By Ennie Moe Blue She Was She was Blue; An azure River that flowed with the terms of the wind — aimless and lost in an ocean of pitch black.She was Blue, for melancholy had marred her soul with burning bruises of pale lilac.She was Blue, and she knew not any other color to feel than the one … Continue reading Blue She Was and Other Prose Poems
Only They Are Mine – My Parents
By Sahaj Sabharwal When everyone is there, concerned with their own lives, Only they are here with me, Not concerned about themselves, But with my life only. When everyone is against me, Only they are with me, And as they believe me and know me well , Are enough against any number of people … Continue reading Only They Are Mine – My Parents
The Angelic Minnesong (Courtly Lovesong)
By Paweł Markiewicz The enchanted moon is solely for you. You are doing the sempiternity herein on earth. You guardian angel conjure dreams of me. So marvelously-propitiously your heavenly mirror shines. The courtly love to the angellet are sorceries. In your vans reveries live. I like you, the angel, drunken with a magnificence of dew, … Continue reading The Angelic Minnesong (Courtly Lovesong)
Poems by Alex Andy Phuong
Underrepresentation Minorities Combined with Congruence Parallelism Iridescence Colors Reflecting Diversity Trapped & bound, but still bursting with freedom Bold Be audacious Independent Iridescent Color the world And paint over What is dark Nestled Lives Security vs. Simplicity vs. Audacity (but not recklessness) Some might say That they do not have … Continue reading Poems by Alex Andy Phuong
Alphabets: Omega
By Thomas Page Endings either come too soon or too late. The theatergoers itching to move Watching the actor butcher the iamb times five; The shoe on the gas-pedal rolling the ankle With the hand primed on the horn; The pilgrims waiting for the pilgrimage to end So that they can lay their head on … Continue reading Alphabets: Omega
Alphabets: Psi
By Thomas Page I know the voice in my head but can’t describe it well. It accompanies me wherever I read And fills in the empty silences with reflection Like a fax machine chugging along in this day and age Sitting by a summer window Thinking of the birds and the leaves swaying in the … Continue reading Alphabets: Psi
Black Soul Choir
By James D. Casey IV Swallowed whole, followed down a dream. Written under duress, at worms' command, behind dead eyes. Can you taste me? Between my teeth, I'm just like you. An ape in need of the bottom. In some form of an escape. The missing link. Digging through the ash. A chemical imbalance, never … Continue reading Black Soul Choir
Alphabets: Chi
By Thomas Page Sometimes but not always there is a chiasmus Between strangers as they pass And they just know that this was meant to happen Without a word to isolate them Or a gesture to consolidate them Just a moment to exist And share in something beyond what can be said In any tongue … Continue reading Alphabets: Chi
Academy of the Heart And Mind 