A Few Days in September by Juan Manuel Pérez
Mother’s Death Senior Care Of Corpus, Corpus Christi, Texas Saturday, September 26, 2020 one weird Saturday something seemed way out of place how could I have known last time I saw mom a home in Victoria she’s surgically blind orders were given not allow me to see her placed there by siblings […]
hot july night by eric short
In your bed, pretending to sleep, secretly counting fan blades like flower petals, wondering He loves me, He loves me not, He loves me. Thank god there are five. And, thankfully my snoring offers more white noise than the whirr of the ceiling fan, because laying in my bed, unable to fall asleep […]
Poem On the Eve of my Thirtieth Birthday by Beck Anson
after Bianca Phipps It is the eve of my thirtieth birthday. Tangled, I feel myself floating above my body. If it weren’t for my birthday. Blue is the warmest color branching into the unknown like a river. Squeeze a lemon and tell me you love me. Sometimes, I get lonesome. My creativity is so low […]
A Closet Story by Jo Matsaeff
I remember dressing up as Salvador Dali for a Carnival parade at school somewhere between 2009 and the end of my teenage years. My young face, rounder than it is today, reflecting in the mirror of the girls bathroom as I was drawing the famous moustache, ignoring the pounding heart and the shaky hands. […]
The End by Marlee Head
Grief is the silence that burdens the sound — one house, two homes two minds, the bones of all that hurts and remains. The moon is hung with echoes and cobwebs cling to empty rooms, Nothing but dust to haunt the empyreal blue, Stalling hearts and faded rules. The songs have been sung, […]
