By Arianna Sebo CAPITAL DISAPPOINTMENT Scissor Wizards hair whizzers extraordinaire buzzers and bleachers braiders and curlers lady with headphones greets me at the door she barely acknowledges I’m wearing no clothes she must be listening to a soap opera on those phones I watch her eyebrows flicker and twitch like a newly born caterpillar I … Continue reading Capital Disappointment and Signs
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
Having an Education and Other Prose by Alex Andy Phuong
Having an Education Ever since I was six years old, I strived to emulate the teachers who inspired me to become the educator that I am today. Ironically, I did not like to read when I was a child. Nevertheless, I still went on to earn college degrees in English, and currently work as an … Continue reading Having an Education and Other Prose by Alex Andy Phuong
Poetry by Steve Merson
Mrs. Browns Grave Once while visiting Mrs browns grave, a bird swooped down and tipped it's wing. It sang a song she used to sing. That's when I knew she was visiting me. Telescopes Through telescopes I see the scope of worlds so far away. I wonder, if theres someone out there, looking back at … Continue reading Poetry by Steve Merson
Emotions of My Life
By Ted Griffin LIFE IS LIFE We all mess up in this roller-coaster called life We make plenty mistakes & may pay the price Life is full of great times & great memories we make So every now & then we allowed the odd mistake We make good decision at the time we think right … Continue reading Emotions of My Life
Escape
By Ian Copestick As I walk there's a pleasant, green landscape full of young flowers, and trees so old. But it doesn't encapsulate the colours in my soul. There are dark, deep blues, purples and blacks Around the edges a crimson rage. Even now, I have to hold some of it back, or it would … Continue reading Escape
Poems by Alex Andy Phuong
Irrevocable Each and every day Be careful of what others say For some would hurt and criticize Yet the noble realize That words could create pain Yet language must not restrain People for practicing nobility For the righteous use logical sense Instead of illogical sensibility Empathy Sympathy is nice Yet empathy takes more To … Continue reading Poems by Alex Andy Phuong
The Limits of the Sun
By Ahmad Al-Khatat Take me to the limits of the sun Away from the miserable nest -of skeletons, simply because they remind me of my thirty-five years Take me back in your warm dream Where life’s bitterness appears more like a blooming rose in the direction of the cemetery, in which we can smile … Continue reading The Limits of the Sun
Prose by Alex Andy Phuong
A Garden in the State of California I am outside near my lemon tree. Sunlight shines upon my body. I express gratitude for having Vitamin D flow through my veins. I breathe air to survive as well as thrive. I walk on the grass, and feel the Earth beneath my feet. I am getting older, … Continue reading Prose by Alex Andy Phuong
Poems by Stephen Kingsnorth
Draughty Winds Those minor things of no report - but I first found them there - make mark more than bedpost notch, and vivid, forty on. The old bus they drove us touring though southern states at war - grandiose white churches, some black guy cutting lawn. Between gigs we slept coach seats, … Continue reading Poems by Stephen Kingsnorth
Academy of the Heart And Mind 