Couple SymbolsWe were stopped at a red light. | To our right was a worker roto-tilling | a section of dirt, by the ...
   by Jason Floyd Williams

Dreams as ImpetusAll night long the red of it | flashed and crackled, teasing | bits of sleep from the corner | of my ...
   by Jessica Dawson

Feeling So PlathShe mourns you at night, the light between | the slats in the blinds, louvering | from a full moon or ...
   by Cara Nusinov

Good FencesOur mugger’s of the nervous sort that feel | content to only cut the bitch and split. | No ...
   - A 62-year-old woman was stabbed. . .as she walked to a grocery store in Darby, Pa., but she didn’t notice the knife sticking out of her back until after she had gone shopping and returned home. . . . No one in the store said anything to her. . . . —from a news story -
   by Lee Passarella

HatlessA hatless man bobbed up from the sea and asked the time | I replied that I didn't have it | The sky ...
   by Ronald T Ray

I'm still crazy in-fuck with youlike shameless dragonflies bending | back-over, landing on docks in the | | filthy Missouri, trying ...
   by Cassie Heltzel

It's Easter Monday I watch the news, |  and pictures of a new Pope |  on a balcony over St Peters Square, |  with a ...
   -  "Hell is empty        and all the devils         are here."          William Shakespeare  -
   by Michael Ashley

Of Dreams & Mortalitynight-time is when they come-- | blue lipped demons hunched under | the weight of terrors borne on | ...
   by Alicia Winski

ParalyzedA hundred eighty pounds trudge | down steps, warning | of Dad’s presence. | I hesitate to look. | He ...
   by Dawn Schout

Prayer For Mr. Jimmymr jimmy | please— | be my judge | convict me for | my sins against you | and reject my crap— | keep ...
   by Larry Blumen

Raffle PrizeI bumped into my neighbor. | She slipped me some posters | to put up. There’s going to be a | craft ...
   by Joan McNerney

RecalibrationSo what if we stage a coup | To recalibrate our dreams | The way the pointed stories of crickets | ...
   by Shally Sibley

Tails And Other Things(because everything in life isn’t | sturm und drang) | | | I’d really like to have | a tail to ...
   by Cindy Rickey

The Death Of YouthDuring those last days, | as July brought forth | sudden ends, | I escaped on a hot coach | stuffed ...
   by Oliver Stansfield

The Downcast DreamerTonight in this limpid ball | it's just me | and the alleyway mourning doves | saying to hell with it ...
   by Aurelia Lorca

The Dumb Sound Of StrangersI | | Life is forgetting, | the formation of fingernails, | the loss of your tail, | the translucence ...
   - “penitentes blancuras lacerades”-César Vallejo, “Absent” -
   by Larry Duncan

The Old SingerSet the makeshift stage: in rust belt of age, | chicken bone vertebrae trussed up | | at six a.m., ...
   by Carol Alexander

The War On Fireplanting reds in a mother rain | arsonists of fascist cloaks of conformity | nurse flowers aflame ...
   by Justin Rogers

To Chase The Moonone might go mad | | | Last night I imagined swallowing it whole | Truth be told | it was merely a ...
   by Tracy Lynn Schafer

W:akthe padre's dream -- | a folk baroque belfry | a mission rising from the flat desert | | [the white ...
   - where water appears [O'odham word] -
   by Hillary Lyon

Watching The Tightrope Walkerthe charade is over | the riddle of the highwire act | is b-r-o-k-e-n | when the girl in the red ...
   by Jay Coral

Caledonia’s BoxesTHE WRITER IMAGINES himself writing. At a table. By candlelight. In a small room. In a stone ...
   by David P. Press

Lying DayIT WAS MANY years ago. Tirta, Clear Water. Hazelnut skin. Hair black, like the volcanic rock that ...
   by Bradford Philen

P & J Sandwiches | Sure thing Tawnya. See you tomorrow at one. | | | I put the phone down and I picture Tawnya's face ...
   by Kent L Johnson

The DrummerROGER FIGURED THAT Battery Park was the safest, remotest, and farthest from his Queens foster ...
   by Ted Gogoll

The Fuck MachineTHE AD SAYS, “Tells you the SPECIAL thing to do when SHE JUST WON’T PUT OUT!”  So I order ...
   by Jon Bennett

What Are Friends For“THIS IS EXCITING, RIC.” Stacey closed the passenger door and looked across the roof of the ...
   by S.C. Wade

Fire on the MountainCarlos wandered the grounds of the Stony Creek Rehab Center looking for unfinished cigarette butts ...
   by Kevin Ridgeway

On the Thirteenth Day of MarchI WAS DEALING with what I’ve come to call a situation. | | A situation is your basic argument ...
   by Kevin Winter

Shot 3 Silenced the Singer - The PrequelShot 3 Silenced the Singer:  The Prequel | | | Eddie Jefferson was a Jazz Singer and an ...
   by Mark James Andrews

The Road to NursingBEFORE I BECAME A NURSE, I loved to watch dramas and real-life programming like House, ...
   by Aleathia Drehmer

Why Poetry? #8 with Julie Buffaloe-Yoder | Other times, I just make stuff up. Like most poets and writers, I’ve got a wild ...
   by Rebecca Schumejda

Nightwatch ...
   by DB Cox