Today, at 70
By Lee Ann Stevens — I am grateful for my parents. Sane, steady, able to let go. I am grateful for the body I was born in. Healthy.
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THEMES by PROMPT
We publish writing using a series of prompts as an entry point for exploring emotions, personal histories, shared truths, joy, grief, shame, and those themes that matter most to us in our hearts.
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Jul 25
INTERTWINED
By Faith Canright — Your flavor of easy lies, lover of my deepest heart. Our fragrance of stolen time. Passion grows in lush green eyes
Jul 21
Races
By Anita Nahal — I call my hair wild when it’s not set. The way I like it. Right down to each curl’s twisting bit. I fret and fume that I’m
Jul 17
Broken
By Ruth Bacharach — I have to call. Who will open the window when my roommate soils herself? I have to ask for a pillow, for chairs, one
Jul 14
An Embarrassment of Wild Prairie Roses
By Shelly Norris — Gangly, disheveled thickets sprout beneath her east windows, harden and bloom cold springs, thrive arid summers, shed
Jul 11
It’s in Our Nature
By R James Sennett Jr — Nature found the humor today. Tripped over it. Trickster! Tickling the soft belly of the babies. Baby animals.
Jul 9
enigma
By Joan McNerney — Shapes of time, our time, pulsing in this labyrinth of today's bizarre maze, leading to confusion as we witness never
Jul 7
Weather Poem
By Jeremiah K Durick — This is not the climate we were born into. It’s the climate we brought on ourselves. They even warned us, but we
Jul 4
Smile
By Sushant Thapa — I can smile with the sun. By the time the moon rises, I can still carry on the game of smiling. The thunder has the light
Jul 2
To the Boy I Saw Picking Up Leaves in the Park on the Way Home from Church
By Brittany Casselman — After watching you in the park on that chilly Sunday afternoon, I followed your example and found a leaf of my own.
Jul 1
Anosmia
By Amy Mariaskin — Bloodhounds can smell history. Overlaying past on present: 300 million scent receptors and a face to gather them. My nose
Jun 26
Passions
By N.T. Chambers — He knew her before she was born, in a way that drowning men know the sea - flailing without hope, surrendering without
Jun 23
Tomorrow
By Jennifer Trieckel — The stillness of the day, bright and clean, full of possibilities and opportunities, ignored and broken by a
Jun 20
RT-PCR test
By Sandip Saha — I saw how much you can take on yourself, untiring in the adventurous tour we ventured into. RT-PCR and Rapid Antigen tests
Jun 16
Target Range
By Holly Day — She held the gun in her hand and imagined she was the prostitute she’d read about in the newspaper, knew that if she was that
Jun 13
A CHEF OF SORTS
By Tim Suermondt — The noodles beginning to boil, meat simmering in the pan and the already made salad sparkles—as I remember my friend who
Jun 9
My Race to Self-Improvement
By Rowan Moskowitz — Whenever I look at myself, I can’t help cringe at my reflection, the flaws instantly popping out thanks to my already
Jun 6
Shadowing Friendship
By Rajendra Ojha (Nayan) — Friendship cannot be maintained like a nail and a finger by everyone, and cooperation with a living soul is
Jun 3
Stigma
By Brighid Aime — Stigma is a force in much need of recourse, drawn by the masses, carried through systems and classes. Sensitive. Soulful.
May 31
No One Noticed The Noise
By Lynn White — She lay there still, quiet in her flesh, and her covering of skin though her heart was drumming loudly and in her head she
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