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Rick Hartwell
May 171 min read
Senior Moment
Thinly veiled moon plays peek-a-boo between clouds; shadows dance and disappear. Trepidatiously at first, then emboldened smelling gifts...
Steven Kay
May 1710 min read
The Glass Needle
You look thin! Katia jolted up in bed, clutching her mottled blanket. Saucer-eyed, her gaze turned to the open bedroom door, a black...
C.J. Lane
May 171 min read
The Emerald Tablet: A Cut-up Poem
The holy speech, that which is Divine Spirit, the embodied Logos, is immortal. All of nature in paragraph, as indeed the secret song of...
Ken Goodman
May 171 min read
in the equipoise
No way to wander away from self-meditative glow: home sweet home where path/arrival has no where to go : mating unseen & beholding in the...
Sloan Porter
May 171 min read
Ingesting the Flood
You tend to wrap sun rays around your throat, death by strangulation of morning promises. You tend to fill your cup with clouds, or sugar...
Zary Fekete
May 1714 min read
Lidérc
The two holy men traveled by day, each of them on their own mule, riding slowly through the grass, until they came to the cabin in the...
Anne Woods
May 176 min read
Midwinter Cold
It was the cold that dragged Abigail down first. People thought you wore cold like a blanket, wrapped around your shoulders and chilling...
Benjamin Parker
May 171 min read
Balance
Life is tenuous, beautiful and brittle, yet never cowers in the presence of death. It lives within chaos and substance; the harrowing and...
Evan Burkin
May 171 min read
Polaroid in South Light
Christened by the black pulp of a young vine berry, I hold my home in the creek bed’s westward bend Where the Polaroid flash of fireflies...
James C. Bassett
Mar 154 min read
Regodless
Everyone is called here once in their life. Some die on the journey; rarely will a person die before the feeling consumes them: the...
Zachary Dein Reisch
Mar 151 min read
Awake
My back breaks, a few vertebrae from the bottom. Arms go knuckles fuse legs snap my blood is now sap. Limbs expand up and out leaves...
Craig Kirchner
Mar 152 min read
Schadenfreude
I, too, have been in the underworld like Odysseus, and shall be there often yet … - Friedrich Nietzsche Tripping into court Morality...
Marble Black
Mar 158 min read
The Yellow House
We are a speck of dust on the Universe’s shelf. Everyone is dead or dying and if they aren’t, then they’re simply unaware. These are the...
Ralph Dranow
Mar 151 min read
The Eyes of Hazrat Inayat Khan
His dark, penetrating eyes are gazing right at you, inviting you to connect, to be your true self, conscious and present. And at the same...
Marc A. Brimble
Mar 151 min read
Call Me Dave
David Bowie came to me in a great big dream. I’d just finished talking with Salvador Dali, he’d been teaching me how to make a million by...
Lauren Elise Fisher
Mar 151 min read
Book of Life
The parchment will eventually go thin / you’ll brush it gently and yet it’ll tear / there’s no cure for the impending age / forget any...
Ron Tobey
Mar 152 min read
Driving West from White Sulphur Springs with Ralph Waldo Emerson
I drive west from White Sulphur Springs in my black and bruised 2005 Silverado model 2500 4x4 Heavy Duty up 7% grades hauls easily 20,000...
Cathy Joyce Lee
Mar 151 min read
The Lighthouse
I breathe the cursed air haunted fog with spectral halos white horse waves roll at my feet tossing dead souls as a sacrifice I tried to...
Jacob Smith
Mar 152 min read
The Trick
Upon his departure from his horrible, sinful life, he was not greeted by fire and brimstone. There was not light, there was not the...
Colette Des Georges
Mar 1511 min read
The Particles of Existence
Danielle extended a long white leg into a long white stocking and watched without interest as servants hooked the delicate lace into...
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