Sep 20, 2022
by Karen Paul Holmes
Send it out, send it / to your mother spinning in another universe / your father too
Sep 19, 2022
by Ken Holland
Another ancient folk singer has died / and of course out come your stories
Sep 2, 2022
by Justin Hunt
I think of what it means to leave a childhood, / the death I’ll die when I shutter our house / and drive Mom away
Aug 27, 2022
by Rebecca Foust
I’m sure it’s clickbait, a girl pulling and pulling / a line from a hole in the ice for what seems / like an hour
Aug 22, 2022
by Chris Atkin
I decided a long time ago I wanted one tattoo. / A single image that screams of self, / meant to say all the things I cannot find the words for.
Aug 20, 2022
by B. Fulton Jennes
My neighbor, a widower, vows / that his house will be / so death-cleaned on his demise / that his daughter’s only worry / will be to return the library book / laid to rest on his nightstand.
Aug 8, 2022
by Claire Matturro
Checking out in a long line / my mind on what the hell / I’m fixing for supper / I notice the guy in front of / me has a gun strapped to his hip
Apr 6, 2022
by Bill Ratner
I’d be a baby without skin, a parrot / without a little soap-shaped food cake, / a truck driver out of a job.
Mar 12, 2022
by Roy Bentley
I was raised with religion, if you count my granny Potter / reading to me from The King James Bible
Dec 2, 2021
by Kathleen Rooney
This day could use the excitement of receiving a surprise package. Even better if that package reads THIS SIDE UP.