By Mukut Borpujari The Outsider Memories are breathing down inside me now, everything slowing to the pace of a snail. Tiptoeing across the yard, the old cat watching— the pace too slow even for him. A crack in the earth opens, and roots rise up to trip me. Thirst lives in me, and the fear … Continue reading The Outsider and Other Poems
Self-Concert and Other Poems
By James Croal Jackson Self-Concert The guitar hides from the sun– a shadow of someone familiar singing. To bare my snake skin wrapped around this temporary home. Green of smile. Holes of jeans. Sweat of beetles. Let me keep a tambourine nearby. I want to make sound in the spotlight. Self-Confidence (2/26/2019) I want to … Continue reading Self-Concert and Other Poems
Sunday Morning, At a Friend’s
By Alyssa Trivett Trains hopscotch over hangnail tracks, lollygagging into the next privileged horizon, the soundbites chewing up any ear-space we have left. Alyssa Trivett is a wandering soul. When not working two jobs, she listens to music and scrawls lines on the back of gas station receipts. Her work recently appeared at in Between … Continue reading Sunday Morning, At a Friend’s
Academy of the Heart And Mind 