Life’s going too fast, so I mark every line. Reiterate every street, every obvious sign, as if the art of noticing could save me from forgetting.
By Marvelous Michael11 months ago in Poets
I’ve put my heart on airplane mode more times than I admit, a tiny switch of self-defense that feels like choosing “quit.”
By Milan Milic11 months ago in Poets
A Pantheon Entry I did not know what light was until she walked in. Tiny thing. Bare feet. Unbothered by the ruins I wore like skin.
By T.A. UDY11 months ago in Poets
They say every empire begins with a spark. They never tell you what comes before the spark — the suffocation, the collapse, the silence that gathers in the ribcage like a held breath.
Picture paradise What do you see? I imagine a world Where we never gather or harvest In excess of need Where we laugh at the ideas of
By Sam Spinelli11 months ago in Poets
I still see you, you know? Mirages of you haunt every bus stop. I find you in a 7/11 cashier, in the way her red lipstick smudges in the crease of her lips.
By G Saint11 months ago in Poets
Before the gold, before the sigils, before the world remembered my name— there was a single brick that refused to obey.
The Horizon Opens Before the whisper, before the chord, before the balloon caught wind There was a breath. A breath that stirred the archive,
By Vicki Lawana Trusselli 11 months ago in Poets
What could she possibly mean? I don't understand what she truly desires. What is her miracle question? In a perfect world, that she'd find herself describing...
By Rowan Finley 11 months ago in Poets
It’s Christmas morning, and the house is abuzz The tree sparkling, the gifts piled around * Everyone smiling as we rush down the stairs
By Jaye Ruggiero-Cash11 months ago in Poets
I own a jacket just for storms that start inside the phone, a second skin I keep for bad news, heavy and overgrown. It hangs beside the door like rain that never learned to fall.
Several weeks ago the daylight shortened and night began lengthening - An unspoken message to all that it was time to begin the season of gathering,
By Pōlani Monderen 11 months ago in Poets
