Roots trace deep underground Within and all around To be seen is to be heard Which is to be inferred I was asked of what…
Posts published in “Literary”
Crystalline
By THEODORE DUFRESNE on January 2025
Through our story of my fate, The bright sun never shined. From the last journey we made Formed this tale, crystalline. We trod steadily –…
Watching the building of warships in Maine
By MIRIAM DEGEORGE on January 2025
Creatures of steel have no words, no mouths – just guns. They have lights in place of eyes, and no men yet aboard. They do…
The Entrepreneur of Stickers
By JENNIFER CARVER on January 2025
Mom, I learned to sell things (like you do) in comic cons. But instead of bags and patches, it’s very colorful yet expandable stickers. One…
The Branch
By LUCY PARK-HOOKWAY on January 2025
Chickadee sat on his branch, the same way that he has since last year. Last year, the spring that he left home, flying away in…
Why you Shouldn’t go to Concerts
By GLORIANA ALLNATT on January 2025
Am I going to lose my leg?” I thought as I looked in terror. I couldn’t believe this was happening. My legwas wedged between the…
Night Town
By SARAH PALMER-JACKSON on January 2025
It was 12am when the bells rang A dark and heavy sound reverberated through the small town Night town Night town was always dark and…
The Red Room
By ACE DUFRESNE on January 2025
The door stands ajar: an open invitation, or, perhaps, a threat. I breathe in, filling my lungs with chalky, chokedair. Untouched for six years now,…
A poem in the perspective of Apollo
By LEX WARD on January 2025
Why Why does every lover I touch turn to gold Every single one with the damn sword of Damocles taunting my every action For once…
Night Town
By SARAH PALMER-JACKSON on December 2024
It was 12am when the bells rang A dark and heavy sound reverberated through the small town Night town Night town was always dark and…
funerals for birds
By ZADIE WANG on December 2024
as she notices its corpse i realize this is the first being she will ever mourn. i watch her eyes sink as she bends down…
Untitled
By QURSUM QURSUM on December 2024
From the hill the sunset could be seen Realizes the woods gave some blisters to the keen The golden hour couldn’t have filled her more…
Unlovable
By JOYCE SPEARS on December 2024
The idea of someone Who loves that i’m someone Is a concept I can’t seem to grasp An attraction to me? Or what I seem…
The Search
By CAEDMON SETHUPATHY on December 2024
Would I run for the waters if I could not breathe the air. Would you claw for the key to break you out of jail.…
Enduring Climb
By CORALLUS MEEKS on December 2024
The enduring climb is a fight to the death With ascendance comes loss of breath, billowing flames in the gullet of the mountain Yet with…
Leviathan
By THEODORE DUFRESNE on December 2024
O, spread your arms like the plague – let me fallPulled down into your tentacle embraceI delve in – diluted: your ocean’s sprawlCold water soaks…
Untitled
By JULIA KLEINBERG on December 2024
When they marched the prisoners in, they told them to dance. No one did. They stood still as stone, too weak to move a muscle,…
Echoes
By ACE DUFRESNE on December 2024
The jewelry had been sorted; the furniture, given away. Stripped of all that had once made it home, the house was a skeleton. There was…
The Experiment
By JULIA KLEINBERG on December 2024
Content Warning: Gore, death, suicide. He came to us suddenly, in a purple blaze of glory and with promises of salvation. He left just as…
Waterworks
By JULIA KLEINBERG on November 2024
I curse the divine being who invented the duct: Rome’s revered creation, Aztec architectural marvels which became the lead-lined pipes in elementary school fountains which…
Blue Skies
By ACE DUFRESNE on November 2024
The mattress groaned, giving the man away. “John?” his wife asked, the quiver in her voice plucking at her husband’s heartstrings. “Yes, Char?” “Where are…
Beautiful, Bridal, Alive
By ZADIE WANG on November 2024
Content warning: Blood, gore. As I pull the sleeves of my wedding dress over my shoulders, I feel a dead woman squirm. She’s uncomfortable in…
Tashlich
By JULIA KLEINBERG on November 2024
Release Lay yourself down in the river and let the rocks chip away at your soul and it will not be a sharp thing, but…
Untapped beauty
By CORALLUS MEEKS on November 2024
Pigments stream unphased through the prism, where unseen within she is hidden. Then absorbed in her colorless flesh dancing light rests, untapped beauty on unspoken…
Lost Letters
By THEODORE DUFRESNE on November 2024
Oh, Tell me where a lost letter goes! Each time a pen touches parchment Each time a man scratches paper – bleeds ink Bleeds –…
Every Time It Rains
By JULIA KLEINBERG on November 2024
I am beckoned. It comes to me, rushing, A noise of perfect, pattering percussion To match my own racing, pounding heart. They say those days…
Water Balloon
By JULIA KLEINBERG on November 2024
Pick it up, Feel the sagging weight under your fingers, Drop it. It hits the ground, flexes, bounces, but doesn’t pop. Carefully pry it open,…