I run the shower, water hot to wash off the day.
Almost instantly comes the sound
of small palms slapping on cold tiles.
Poetry
The Keeping Room is an online magazine for all women writers, poets, and artists.
We are looking to publish your short stories, essays, free writing, poetry, and photo essays that touch on topics related to Women’s Wisdom, Lessons Learned, Self-care, Bodies, Relationships, and Community.
Writers selected for publication will be paid $25
Watercolor Study, Incarnate by Alison Lubar
1. P.M.
when the suburban navy blue becomes
…
Fair Words for My Daughter
By Tara Iacobucci
Daughter, take this. The most powerful word on Earth is no. Hold it in between your teeth like a kernel. Another word:...
Strange Attractors: The Fractal Geometry of the Perfect Kiss
By Devin Guthrie
If we took the tangents of each crease that lies along the curves of your lips we could make matrices, incandescent...
At Best Farm in Monocacy, Maryland
By Kelsi Folsom
I. Beautiful day for war, fields of yellowing leaves speckled with black spots buffering centuries of secrets stuck in...
“Hymn”, “Feathers”, “Lineage”
by Rikki Santer
Hymn Thirsty for aPleistoncene morning, I’m a graying creaturetrotting in & out of...
Ways to Die While Breathing
by Maryann Gremillion
I’ve heard this more than once:
Death
slides the mind to turbulence and dust,
Mother Tells Me I’m Not Sick
By Elaine Nadal
Her unrelenting certitude is as irritating as her criticisms of other peoples’ food and her refusal to let anyone cook...
Burned Toast
Taryn Miller
Rachel has an extraordinary gift to burn toast beyond repair, a talent she inherited from her grandfather, she says....
Evermore and Poison from Balm
t.m. thomson
Evermore Each of her wing strokes stokes heavy air to currents blends heat with movement softens summer. Many know...
from V
Carolyn Guinzio
from V ASH The palms were burned to make the ash. On Sunday, V tucked the palm behind the frame of the print of the...