The Actuality of Your Existence by Alyssa Brocker
~ Voted 2016 Spillwords Author of the Year, Alyssa Brocker began writing during her freshman year of college. With the creative efforts of her theatre troupe, they produced an original play written in prose. After that experience, writing was all she wanted to do. Her poetry and short stories have been published in Florida Weekly, […]
In the Garden by Robbi Nester
In the Garden to Richard After “To Dorothy,” by Marvin Bell You’re my practical potato. sprawling out over the rocky earth. I might have sought a bird of paradise, lofty head standing high above the crowd. But you will nourish me long after their stalks have fallen, when the bright rose, in his pomp, has […]
April 2020 by Rommy Cortez-Driks
April 2020 On my birthday, I will take my tea under the branches of a dying cherry tree. It has its scars, like I do, raw and still exposed. Ants have worried their way into the crevasses and I know those wounds will not close. But I see the buds of the promised pink that […]
Yard Work by Yrik Max Valentonis
Yard work family roots buried deep like a banyan tree reaching out and dropping new connections down like a mangrove with the clusters intertwined, seeds scatted on the tide like cypress knees spreading out and reaching up this white picket fence cage overgrown with weeds, my yard is an embarrassment yet my neighbors still […]
Arts of the Ancient World by Kaylen Rose
Arts of the Ancient World after Yeshe Tsogyal I. I run / into the art museum / a wild animal standing in the shiny echo / white foyer past / the giant plush ottoman / fuchsia big enough / for my fat body / to snow angel I run / down the hall / […]
