Latest Works

Josephine G Cambridge

Nov 164 min read

On the Seafloor

My mind, memories, and soul came into being—like waking up, only somehow, I was already awake. My dim cabin aboard the Samsa was more...

Spencer Keene

Nov 161 min read

Scene from a Graveyard

The moon casts her milky drape over stoney gardens—shadowed with crosses stretching the grass. My blistered tongue whispers, entreats...

Zary Fekete

Nov 169 min read

Missionary Childhood

When my father was teaching me how to ride a bike, he also taught me about sin. We lived in Vienna, just having arrived from Minnesota....

Tinamarie Cox

Nov 161 min read

Restless

I live in the house my grandfather built when he was young and strong, and filled with love and dreams. Where I lay me down to sleep was...

Christopher Woods

Nov 161 min read

Bearded Tree

We come to it After a walk Through a field Late afternoon Shadows closing in Sunlight already golden. Old tree, Its beard scraggly...

Mahailey Oliver

Nov 162 min read

Despite Cupped Handfuls of Broken Teeth

Have you ever taught a lesson over symbolism to a room full of thirty-three teenagers while holding cupped handfuls of your own...

Marcel Feldmar

Nov 151 min read

this deep hatred of misery

such delightful isolation surrounding as my mind opens up like a gentle stab velvet car crash chewing on knives and I’m speechless...

Christopher Woods

Nov 151 min read

Pearlfisher

Where was he going All that time, Plunging deeper Toward dark water Minutes from the light? He must have known his chances, Hazards of...

Craig Kirchner

Nov 151 min read

Immanence

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free. ...

Hannah Birss

Nov 1510 min read

Communion

Historian’s Note : The following excerpts are from the journal of the nun Floriana de Olmedo as found within the library of St....

Dani Arieli

Sep 2010 min read

Across the Marsh

Nobody batted an eye while the man with the carrion-crow mask handed the little girl flowers of violet. Not even the young farmhand, who...

Preston Ford

Sep 207 min read

Awaiting...

Dear Katz, It’s been a month and a half, and I’ve been trying to find a way to tell you how I’m feeling and what I’ve finally decided...

LindaAnn LoSchiavo

Sep 201 min read

The Visitation

Lined up like make-believe guests, potted ferns Adorned the entry, their cool shadows dim Switching the parlor—life’s last living room—...

Caidyn Bearfield

Sep 202 min read

It Must Be Necessary

With enough years of practice, I easily store six days of outfits in a single backpack pocket Crumpled five dollar bills tucked in...

Ralph Dranow

Sep 201 min read

Risala

My Sufi guide and I are meeting on Zoom. She welcomes me with a home-run smile and a “Hi” laced with joy. “Read me one of your poems,”...

H.M. Shrike

Sep 209 min read

Hexenhaus

Letter from Wolfgang Jakob Welsch to his friend Julius Hofmann, 1627. Translated from the original German by Dr. Angela Windsor, 2009. My...

Kyle Brandon Lee

Sep 205 min read

Her Heart for a Field of Dandelions

The breeze blew only so softly, the dandelions merely teasing their release. The entire field waved with the gentle wind. Massive stones...

Nicole F. Kimball

Sep 201 min read

Slaughterhouse for Third Dimension

I sit in the middle of the wild to watch the last of my wilderness build a shed, take shelter, carve a canoe from my bones. Here the...

Rick Hartwell

Sep 201 min read

Unbidden

Rising from the murky depths of an unconscious soul or a conscious id; whether Freudian, Jungian or surrealian, "nightmares" is too soft...

D Bedell

Sep 204 min read

The Bones

September rains christened the old cemetery with a bleakness that blackened the gravestones tumbled among the trees grown up in neglect....