Cremate me in your fires of passion, burn my soul indelibly, memories will a story fashion, of how we loved, and used to be. Continue reading »
Tag Archives: Loss
Beware by Carl Douglas
All fluorescent before the dreamscape The feeling continues We dispel grotesque delusions And become luminous Love will be born I am desirous Beware! Wary curious Fading slowly Sun on his face Down what streets The lover Makes his way Never to catch up Continue reading »
Super Powers by Jay Levon
If I could walk through walls, I’d stroll into your house, slap your ass, and say, “Daddy’s Home.” If I could lift ten times my body weight, I would crush your new boyfriend with a Volkswagen. If I had x-ray heat vision, I would stare through your clothes and laser my name into your pubic … Continue reading »
Re-collection by Anthony Ward
I can no longer remember my first memory… I recall a time I was able to remember it, Can sense the fondness, Feel the reverberations of its echo, But can’t for the life of me recollect how it went. What is this memory of a memory When not a memory itself? Continue reading »
Good – Paul Hostovsky
When my mother was dying she said, “I’m not very good at this.” “Is anyone?” I asked, smoothing the blanket on her hospital bed. “Some people are,” she said. “The ones who spend their lives preparing.” “I think we’re all unprepared,” I said. “I’m not very good at this,” she said again, wincing as she … Continue reading »
Untitled – Jane Hertenstein
Turning fifty is no big deal. It’s like forty-nine plus. Like size 1 is hardly different than a size 0. As if I knew. Those numbers are so far in my past as to be irrelevant. In fact I’ve never been a 1 or a 0. More to the fact, the closest I’ve ever come … Continue reading »
The Tension and Terror of Being by Allison Grayhurst
I see no brave and better day than what we own. I see no more precious challenge than that which is given us – to chose decisively between goodness and malice, to long for God and long criminals from their slumber. The heaviest pity, the most sheepish betrayal, the refuge of ugly ambition, all murder … Continue reading »
Star by Joop Bersee
Yes well we are distant now, the past like a darkening wall between us, an illness. I touch the bricks with my fingers, break my nails as I try to scratch the cement, grey, bitter, can’t focus any longer. Her images are coming out of my chest, projected on the wall like good old slides, … Continue reading »
Lost Landscape by Joan McNerney
I am driving down a hill without name on an unnumbered highway. This road transforms into a snake winding around coiled on hair pin turns. See how it hisses though this long night. Why am I alone? At bottom of the incline lies a dark village strangely hushed with secrets. How black it is. How … Continue reading »
Blue by Art Heifetz
In his senior year, Blue became his lover Then his bride. She locked him in her cool embrace And pulled him down to depths That sunlight could not reach. The tender green of early spring, The red and gold collage of fall Were lost to him. Even the elegant swans in the park Had white … Continue reading »
