If My Despair Can...
/If my despair can sink ships like a storm,
and my shores are consumed by tidal gloom,
like apples spoiled by a devouring worm,
where rot and mind's decay lead …
By Ngoc Nguyen
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Infested Waters
/It can be difficult in this mile-a-minute …
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At the intersection of reality and nightmares, a broken soul shivers and weeps. Torn and shattered by relentless waves in waters of sin…
By Linda Troxell
Read MoreCoach Cool
/A personal memory of how a single incident can change life’s trajectory.
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Many years ago, I stopped into Roederer’s Tavern in Burlington, Iowa, for a quick Pabst. To my surprise, sitting there at the bar was the former Burlington Junior College basketball coach Ed Sparling. Back in the late 1960s…
By Don Gardiner
Read MoreDecomposing Self
/I could stare myself in the mirror.
the maggots residing in my body
dine on my organs for …
By Secre
Read MoreThe Assignment
/Paulie writes a biographical …
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A few days passed from the time Rip formally rested in peace underneath Paulie’s, teenage designed linen covers, allowing the boy to reflect upon …
By Marc OBrien
Read MoreIsaac Stuvyensant’s Deincarnation
/I’m truly sorry you had to find my remains as such, but I felt that taking my own life was the only way out of my gnawing madness—a madness I can neither contain nor accept; a madness that has stalked me since birth and was strained to…
By CraigE
Read MoreVagabond Of The Void
/A metaphorical poem that …
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I lay passively on a seasoned ark,
Adrift the prosaic brine,
Restrained by the chains of …
By Aadityaamlan Panda
Read MoreMysterious Muse
/I spotted you on the steps
It was Mother’s Day, but you may have been with your partner
You walked towards me and did a head nod
I think I made a …
By Samantha Merz
Read MoreDon’t Mess With The Snail
/Hey, stop right there, you human being,
Don’t you dare call me a worthless snail
Who wanders across the kitchen floor
Messily oozing a slimy …
By K. J. Watson
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