Country Lust

Country Lust

By Jenn Powers     he cleans his fingernails with a knife & cooks bone soup      fresh kill from the forest         blood flecks mud-caked construction boots            late afternoon light     purple now      cools the surface of work benches         ...
Homely Chores

Homely Chores

By Anne Fox     Like Simone de Beauvoir, I have compared housework to the torture of Sisyphus. Yet once in a while, when an afternoon turns golden, I remember the outcome of an irresistible impulse. Despite my many years of kinship with a clothes dryer, long...
Dying to Be

Dying to Be

By Heather Graham     Those nicks were just normalcy, and burns a bargaining plea for a life that tucked truth away behind hollowed apathy.   Hanging hope upon the rope of ambient ambition, she washed out in the white sounds of lack of recognition....
“Broken” and “Your Heart”

“Broken” and “Your Heart”

By Charnjit Gill     Broken   I’m proud of being broken Only those brave enough to take something apart will ever understand how the pieces go together Because when you build yourself again—it will be better Better at handling pressure Because you...
the wind

the wind

By Alyssa Harmon     the cool breeze asking so politely to see what’s under her dress the gust of angry wind who thinks he’s entitled to the skin underneath     ***     Alyssa Harmon Alyssa Harmon is a junior at the University of South...

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