WALTZ I kissed you from the left, after you debunked the afterlife; she kissed me from the left, as if to neutralize you were warned by text of horsemen, you were warned by text of flames; she begged me to drown with her but she found the sea too cold. you saw and you believed […]
Eva Rodrigues | BUTTERFLY
BUTTERFLY remember me like this: limbs swinging, voice singing, me swimming through the world with fierce butterfly, arms-only, slowest in the pool but damn well determined to make it. remember how when you talked to me, you never knew where the conversation would go, if we would talk about mars or cannibalism or chimpanzees […]
Jessi MacEachern | A LOOK BACK
A LOOK BACK Cradling the top-tasting gin-soaked ice the lines between whispers against neighbourhood regulations— Obscure the view Our thoughts have trouble living next to poetry careen from pillow down to city sidewalk the sun the air the stillness ………………….. is still …………………………….. consumes chews cuts holds complaints dear Author’s Bio Jessi […]
Byron Stratford Davis | HUNTER OF MOONBEAMS
HUNTER OF MOONBEAMS There was a time, When hunters, Threw nets into the sky, To catch small birds in flight. So I have flown, Into the net Of the hunter of moonbeams, Of the dream walker. Author’s Bio On January 7, 1950, at 14 years old, Byron Stratford Davis attempted to cross into the […]
Pamela Lisa | HELD ME LIKE THE BABY I WAS
HELD ME LIKE THE BABY I WAS we smell the forest fragrance red and the trees healthy or they are rotting the land is tilled to grow poison now we are not close enough to the water or the river or the lake and we go to sleep heavy in little houses or they are […]