To begin, you will need: one room, preferably one routinely overlooked and one humble body willing to remain regardless. *
By Shannon Hilson9 months ago in Poets
Politics, religion, money. All very sensitive topics that, from a young age told not to bring up. These three topics, without fail, always turn into a heated argument.
By Jen Phillips9 months ago in Poets
Don't speak until spoken to, alright? Walks outside in this weirdo's view? Let's see... in public, I'm turned into a trainer at
By Willem Indigo9 months ago in Poets
Start by removing their name from your mouth, carefully. Replace it with appropriate weather. Say aloud, “It’s colder lately.”
A zebra finch’s song, a silver piccolo flute, a tinny sound White gossamer curtains drape over the dawn A friend's letter on my fridge door: Thank you for coming to my Yom Kippur party
By Rita Chun9 months ago in Poets
Choose a crooked doorway and measure yourself against it. Mark the aging wood where you once believed you would stop growing.
You terrify me like the winds that howl beneath the night sky You terrify me more than what haunts the Appalachia Mountains
By Cadma9 months ago in Poets
start with too many ingredients: expectation, want, desire, yearning, eight flavors of hurdle, six missing skills, a time constraint and a hole in your head.
By Dane BH9 months ago in Poets
Has my heart yet again lead me down a broken road One that’s all to familiar and unpleasantly cold Or has it just selected for me
By Edward Val9 months ago in Poets
I am strange— stranger than I ever admit. Strange enough to set fire to my own shelter, and stand there watching it burn
By Jhon smith9 months ago in Poets
We are in the last hours of the Wood Snake year, and it shows. * The cosmic shrugs are getting longer, harder – birth contractions marking
By David Muñoz9 months ago in Poets
I changed your contact name three times, Then hid the phone under a cushion like it could smother the truth. ﹁﹂ In the grocery store I saw you
By Milan Milic9 months ago in Poets
