Tag: Literary Magazine

  • I Sit and Shake My Legs

    by Paige Alis Dammers I sit and shake my legs filled with caffeine buzzing in veins both red and blue, pumping life inside my skin, suit beating with warmth, and I am, and the world is, cold. Wind breaks, cold glass piercing shards into my legs, sweet warmth bubbling to the surface of my unshaven…

  • Molly in the Pinwheel Park by Herself

    by Nicole Dipre Molly, my sun, you know I’d believe you if you said the world was yours. Glistening sweat indistinguishable from dew drops on raised arm hairs, you lay dazed in a Chelsea playground. Coming down, shivering, arching your spine. Starburst Soaking, staring into curving laced skies in oak trees. Stars or street lights…

  • Off Duty

    by McKenzie Janisz

  • Off Duty

    by McKenzie Janisz

  • Oscar’s Lighthouse

    by Jules-Arden Bernard I haven’t been to that beach in years, but I remember the first interaction I had with that old man. He had his hands clasped over the wooden railings of the old lighthouse, his shoes, leather and oddly taken care of, were covered in sand, and his eyes wrinkled with his smile,…

  • Papa & The Pumpkins

    by McKenzie Janisz

  • Pe(s)ts

    by Jessica C. Gray There’s a colony of mice in my skull. They’re really wrecking the place. It started with only one- sad how one makes you prone to more. It’s a wonder I’m not sicker. All the droppings and chewed wires everywhere- even the ceiling sags with urine. Every day I wonder why my…

  • Poem with a Line from Antonio Machado’s ‘Summer Night’

    by Maria Touw Is it not A beautiful summer night? Lay down, Unlock your jaw, And breathe In the dewy grass. Sink Into the dirt; As if you were finally returning To Mother Earth.

  • Postcard from Nil

    by Devon S Roberts

  • Rat King

    by Devon S Roberts