Latest Works

Robyn Thomas

Jul 198 min read

The Listeners

October 15, 2043 I’ve been accepted! By train and boat we journey to join the other initiates. We’re allowed three final phone calls –...

Rowan Tate

Jul 191 min read

incarnation

an unfinished feeling, he prays to something beautiful that doesn’t have a name. he tells god he must learn to be five again, when time...

Craig Kirchner

Jul 192 min read

ADIEU

The most memorable are the finals, my father on a morphine drip, burying my first dog, Sporty. According to Oxford, "goodbye" is...

Warren Benedetto

Jul 197 min read

Uncle Pumpkin's Tongue

I wish I had warned someone about Uncle Pumpkin. Maybe I could have stopped him. Maybe I could have saved those poor kids. But until...

Katherine Olsen

Jul 191 min read

Snail Vigil

Now that I have tucked you —cracked and broken, body soft— into the damp dark earth in May, the rain loosening the soil and bringing up...

Joan Bechtel

Jul 193 min read

The Unwanted Place

Let me lie fallow beside the old patch of earth, weedless now and forgotten, ignored because it has no more to give. Let me rest upon its...

John Zedolik

Jul 191 min read

Perhaps god of time is a misnomer and god is time the correct alternative since the former indicates removal from the preposition’s...

Marco Etheridge

Jul 196 min read

Epistles to the Horsemen

Hail, Lord of the White Horse, From He of the Red Horse. Greetings and good tidings to you, Honoured Comrade. The first two seals are...

i tell god i want to write a poem entitled rubato that ends with a dying sound

Rowan Tate

Jul 191 min read

i tell god i want to write a poem entitled rubato that ends with a dying sound

when god made me he was singing and i am finishing the song—the way birds unfeather themselves into kaleidoscopic color, cosmos creating...

Bernardo Villela

Jul 195 min read

The Godhead

Some people suffer sleepless nights pondering if the Big Bang proves or disproves God. Others have wondered how God said, “Let there be...

Misty Layne

Jul 191 min read

a verse of divine demise

they said carve out the pieces of you that don't fit the world offer them up to the gods for a blessing (no, a curse) (no, a snack) that...

Haley DiRenzo

Jul 191 min read

Adam's Bones

What came first Adam’s rib or Eve’s womb? If they were not lovers but mother and son and he slithered from between her legs coiled at her...

James Fowler

Jul 193 min read

Haunts

Our denial and patience have reached their limit. We must do something about the ghosts. Postings on them have gone through the roof....

Rowan Tate

Jul 191 min read

procreation

i want a word for that barefooted breathing when god sprouts out of the ground next to me in a color that only exists in may, a verb for...

Amanda C

May 171 min read

Creation

The god reaches down with sinewy arms like tender vines they curl around the bite-sized human He knits a garment out of honey and...

Jill Jepson

May 172 min read

Birds

I work long into the night making the birds, sewing the slender feathers with fine thread, knitting the tiny hearts, the miniature lungs....

Jonathan Mitchell

May 1711 min read

Midnight Show

It is difficult to pinpoint when my insomnia started. I remember fitful sleep, filled with agitated dreams of clanking noises and foul...

Andrew Kolarik

May 172 min read

Car Jammed

I raise my infant son and daughter, onto the barrier. We look out on a sea of chrome, southbound only, flickering into the distance. For...

Thomas De Moor

May 1711 min read

Inheritance

Ingram slogged through the downpour to watch the execution of the hex. His calloused fingers were wrapped around the tight straps of his...

Mitchell Pluto

May 171 min read

Theurgy and magnetic sphere

There is a guiding light. A path towards a healthier and more compassionate self. It is a star self, a light held together by its own...