ConvictedCHARLIE HAD JUST GOTTEN OUT OF JAIL. He had been there for twelve years. He was Twenty when he went ...
    by Damion Hamilton
ExplodeTONY WAS REALLY MAD NOW. IT WAS ONE OF THOSE things that really shouldn’t have bothered him, but ...
    by Damion Hamilton

Main Street USA by Jeffery Crouch

a fatherhood poem what kind of father could i be. even the musing | has me lighting another cigarette.. | | i ...
    by Jeffery Van den engh
a few tables over i see her and it hits me— | the woman putting up bed sheets to dry | on a rooftop in Saint Urbaine— | ...
    by Jeffery Van den engh
A Heart Shaped Piece Of My YouthWe used a chicken bone to open it, | a gas or electric box, I’m not really sure | except that it was ...
    by Paul Tristram
Afternoon with Rain, Memory and DarknessTo be alone and lost | inside yourself, on a rainy Sunday | afternoon. To walk unfocused, | uncaring, ...
    by Glenn W. Cooper
animal justicethe problem here is the mice. | skittering tittering rampant little thieves. | we have ...
    by Jeffery Van den engh
ArchonI heard tell once that | The universe, all of it, | Was the result of a | Conflict between fire | And ...
    by Chris Deal
a solipsistic do wah diddy diddy dum diddy dotrain sounds clipped to manila folders | matter only to this woman in green. | | this ...
    by Jeffery Van den engh
Co-dumb-pendentafter several messages | left in your | voice mail | no reply back | | but I bet | you’re | using that | ...
    by Linda Rosenkrans
Crude JokerCrowded bar | ugly faces | black labels and thin traces | of white powder on porcelain | the fire ...
    by April-May March
Explaining My Pregnancy To Anti-BreedersI know I’m an idiot. | I have no right to be pregnant. | I’m no better off than a knocked up | ...
    by Misti Rainwater-Lites
four hundred bahti wasn't very long in bangkok. | just business. | in and out. | | the meeting ended at 6:30 | and the ...
    by Jeffery Van den engh
how i got this scari was walking alone in the forest late one night | thinking about how no one had ever recommended ...
    by Rob Taylor
How it can HappenIt's like five teens are on a train | And they have their girls with them | And they know very ...
    by Damion Hamilton
i've got a lot going oni've got a cold | and my nose | is always running. | | on top of that | my life is | acting up ...
    by Rob Taylor
Ignored By AngelsMy darkness says it all, | they are elsewhere | as I fall forward | compact and edgeless | like a ...
    by Paul Tristram
KittendrownerAllen Ginsberg told us | Everything is holy | Even the asshole | He was right | Where would we be ...
    by Wred Fright
klugwhen i showed up as a temp | at the ryko factory | he'd already put in | thirty years. | ...
    by Justin Hyde
Lamb and BeefI want a life, not a career. | If donkeys were monkeys | and monkeys were pills | if swallows were ...
    by April-May March
my mind is prettily preoccupiedpig, pack rat me | a bag of spoiled pears | and an empty container | that held a magic burrito | are ...
    by Echezona Udeze
nakedi see you drip into another misery-- | i’m sorry to say but pure pleasure for me | as ...
    by Jeffery Van den engh
No ExcusesYeah, you’re right | I did do all | Of those things | You accused me of | | I won’t apologize | For ...
    by Linda Rosenkrans
NO WONDER THIS IS A DYING ARTi can’t seem to offend ‘em with a poem | i write articles and letters to the editor and | everyone is ...
    by Rob Taylor
Put Away Those Watercolors, Punk Assforget love the lazy blower of dandelions | the whale bellowing through the sea | the plump titty ...
    by Misti Rainwater-Lites
Quiet in the AlpsDeep heat | my back hurts. | Please remove the clench | and remove those socks from the bottom of | ...
    by April-May March
RageAngry? | whatever gave | you that idea? | I just want to | scratch your | eyes out | squish them | ...
    by Linda Rosenkrans
Retail SaviourThere's such a things as working way too hard. | I had been out of work for way too long. | I took a ...
    by Bryon D. Howell
Scribbling In The SkyHow can I stop this? | there’s an accordion player | tapping his foot on this corner, | a bomb going ...
    by Paul Tristram
Spirit Sucked Out With A McDonald’s StrawI wanted to tell you about the jeweled orbs | the juice | the sticky nectarine feast | the sangria ...
    by Misti Rainwater-Lites
StormRound the storm winds | Blow, with the peculiar | Violence that only nature | Is privy to, something ...
    by Chris Deal
Summer VacationWent to | The Grand Canyons | And | While the rest | Of the tourists | Marveled at | The beauty | Of ...
    by Linda Rosenkrans
The CatsHot damn, I'm gonna | Fry me a salamander. | Toast that thing up | All crispy like I like it. | One or ...
    by Daniel S. Irwin
The Great Music ProducerHe’s known as the great 60’s producer | And I listen to him | And admire his work, | the wall of ...
    by Damion Hamilton
the lonerwalking home from the bus stop | just on dark, sometimes i glance | through the uncurtained windows | ...
    by Glenn W. Cooper
The RulesThis existence | obeys a ruleset | we will never understand | or comprehend. | But here we are | like ...
    by Leopold McGinnis
Three Bar BluesFirst bar and there's a | Guinness in my hand | While the band on stage | Is stumbling through a | ...
    by Chris Deal
to the___editor@__firstly. i will thank you mam. may i call you mam. | or better yet can i call you mom. | | did ...
    by Jeffery Van den engh
What I knowI move through the streets, | Knowing about: | Confusion | Anxiety | Loneliness | | While death hangs a ...
    by Damion Hamilton
WisdomSenaca says Time is our most important asset | And so many of us give freely of our Time | Or have it ...
    by Damion Hamilton