City Smells
Mehreen Ahmed — Dimly lit under the street lamps in an old alley at midnight, a nostalgia wells up. A perceptible city smell tickles the
Jan 4, 2024
Equilibrium
By Eugene Datta — A tangle of leafless branches and twigs across a wire fence,
and through it the winter sky: patches of blue, gray and
Dec 12, 2023
Aren't you glad it’s a girl?
By Evelyn Asher — Grief grabbed me.
Postpartum depression overshadowed societal joy. An arms-length relationship with my mother flashed.
Nov 21, 2023
Mopping
By Zary Fekete — One day my father taught me how to use a mop. The mop was old-fashioned with dozens of tendrils soaked with soapy water.
Nov 2, 2023
New Moon in Cancer
By Nicole Menzzasalma — The path of long time suffering is faulted on the stars of non believers, fictitious foes,
forlorn lovers, and
Oct 26, 2023
No one is excluded from love, including me
By Pavlina Gatikova — Inhale the quote by Thich Nhan Hanh “Because you’re alive, everything’s possible,” which includes abuse, manipulation,
Oct 13, 2023
ENOUGH OF LIFE CUT SHORT ALREADY
By John Grey — He shows me a wall where a man was shot. Rub your fingers across the stone. Feel the holes where they missed. I'm grateful
Sep 16, 2023
Scoliosis
By Doley Henderson — Scoliosis is not a deformity. It is just a different state of spine. It is not a disease and not infectious. We are all
Sep 7, 2023
Mirror Freedom
By Duane Anderson — My face had gone unseen, at least by me for several weeks after the bathroom mirror had been removed for a remodeling
Sep 1, 2023
Time outside clock
By Sushant Thapa — I am buried in deadlines. It seems that the sun will shine late tomorrow. But there will be tomorrow. There will be my
Aug 6, 2023
Cold
By Jeremiah K Durick — It’s like time travel back to my childhood. I’m sitting on the couch in the living room, home from school, coughing
Aug 1, 2023
The End of All Things
By Gary Beck — As the empire dissolves, madness accelerates, breeding chaos. Armed bands roam the country, make dates to fight other bands,
Jul 20, 2023
When I’m Gone
By Khloe Kempker — Tell them that I never left a treacherous trail of burdened broken hearts like seashells along the shore, that I always
Jun 4, 2023
Drifting
By John Lynn Swainston — I am sure there is a name for it. I called it drifting, getting from one place to another without taking a step.
May 17, 2023
Women Making Waves
By Joanne Greene — What never entered my mind in 1977 was that Roe v. Wade could be overturned by the Supreme Court, and that women in
May 1, 2023
The Way I See It
By Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg — The way I see it has changed and keeps changing as my eyes re-calibrate hundreds of times and thousands of ways
Apr 17, 2023
The Change We Are All Looking For
By Pankhuri Sinha — People change, commitments change, priorities too! Love fades, passion evaporates, friendships break! In this
Apr 3, 2023
Frozen Until Thaw
By Alicia Taylor — How can I explain, the terror that once reined? It's such a disgrace, yet when I look at her face, I see what the rest
Mar 13, 2023
A Simple Truth
By Ed Williamson — In my younger years I discovered a simple truth. It was in my nature to be curious, to ask questions, and—if I knew it—to
Mar 1, 2023
Almost in Grasp
By Duane Anderson — If I learned of the meaning of life last night, and this morning, I remember nothing about it.
The bartender
Feb 12, 2023