I’ve been listening to the trees all my life. Fifty years later, I understand they have been talking to me. Whispering, willowing waves of branches and leaves. Saying we love you. We are the tickle in your ears, whispering words of peace. Soothing your eyes in times of grief. Sing to the joy of emptiness, [...]
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If I Look Up by Carmen Eichman
If I look up at the light in the laundry room, are you there? Years? Yes. God, yes, it’s years passed, but, I want it to be you, want it to smell, to taste like you, in that light, want it to be you to reach down and pull me up, push away a silted [...]
Dedication by Ashley Inguanta
this is for the girls who are not the most loved ones in the lives of others this is for the tiger girls the fae girls the valleyflower girls the combat-boot girls the glitter-cloud girls the felt-moon girls this is for the girls who sleep with egg-white ghosts the girls who love so hard nothing [...]
Grassy Meadows – a pensee by Lisa Arnold
broken rain clouds disperse glimmer of sunlight bares down grassy meadows; beads of rain dance glorious warm winds blow Lisa Arnold is a published poet and short story writer. Her work has appeared in Events Quarterly, All Things Girl, Poetic Monthly and The Persistent Mirage and in various anthologies. She is the Administrator of a [...]
Periphery of Light by Lisa Arnold
periphery of light peers through impenetrable clouds serene bluesy winds blow warmth from the sea in the distance echoing silence, quietly, beckons miles away muffled train whistle screams rain drops fall in slip-slop patterns on black asphalt alone, lost soul, walks behind veiled darkness searching avenues for a place to, finally, belong Lisa Arnold is [...]
Metempsychosis by Ivana Plucinski
Do we have the right To be each other’s lover On an exponential flight To new days of forever? Is the thief by name of grief Hiding in the green skin wine, Waiting to dissolve belief In living to a new design? Limestone crystals in our bones, Stalagmite-dripped histories; Synapse habit often drowns Profound in [...]
Power by Ally Hochhalter
Inching away from chains once worn And mending open flesh once torn A silent strength is born From the death she must mourn Of a man from which her fondness grew But shattered for his horns shone through For so long she had found shelter too. However, this was the day that she would rue [...]
Violet Roses – a Whitney by Lisa Arnold
violet roses bloom in teak gardens golden wind chimes sway in breeze warm summer sun illuminates morning sky Lisa Arnold is a published poet and short story writer. Her work has appeared in Events Quarterly, All Things Girl, Poetic Monthly and The Persistent Mirage and in various anthologies. She is the Administrator of a growing [...]
Evolution by C. Delia Mulrooney
Self, Version One: The first one corners me in a hallway and declares me a pretty girl. “We should, like, go out or somethin,” he says, cracking his knuckles and staring at me. Fifteen years old and I have been suddenly thrust in the spotlight of male attention. It is a glow I’m needy to [...]
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