Unfathomable Devastation
/Unfathomable Devastation is a poem about a ship near the Red Sea in Yemen…
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…waits in open sight,
a rusty oil tanker at sea
waiting for that inevitable…
By Brenda Arledge
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What The Neighbors Knew
/The feeling when everyone in the neighborhood knows what's going on except you.
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…was one of those gorgeous spring days, so Sam was on his patio enjoying a cold drink and reading through his emails on his phone when he heard…
By Tom Kastanotis
Read MoreUnsocial Media
/…fires off selfies on Instagram
Here’s me not wearing much
Here’s me wearing a little more
Like it, love it, share it…
By Amanda Steel
Read MoreChildren of Screens
/…are children of screens now
Who came out of the womb with face ID registered on their phone,
Who post selfies with their little baby friends…
By Sinéad Mears
Read MoreI Can't Save You
/A woman mourns the loss of her wife.
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…a girl scout today. Well, I ate 5 boxes of Samoas and 3 boxes of thin mints. There are 3 boxes of thin mints left in the freezer. I showed some restraint. The Samoas were her favorite; perhaps that was why I couldn't stop eating. I couldn't wait for her to wake out of sedation. The truth is I didn't want to…
By Leah Holbrook Sackett
Read MoreThe Lost Connection
/Loss of Faith in Technology
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…connection was lost in the wood.
In sorrow, I cursed an angry oath,
And turning in place as I…
By Ken Gosse
Read MoreMuriel Calls the Neighbor
/…was the time of the pandemic. On most days Muriel Blenkinsopp did not venture out of her house on High Street in Ashleyville, Ohio. She lived by herself, her husband having died five years before, and her children were now at home in another state a few hours away. She didn't even have a dog, though she would have liked one, but they seemed too much trouble to take care of. She didn't like cats very…
By Anita G. Gorman
Read MoreChildish Thoughts
/…looked down at my grandson, and a tear had filled his eye
He looked up and said “Papa, why is it things must die?”
His pleading eyes sought wisdom and I stammered just a bit
And tried to think, before I spoke, of proper words to…
By James Geehring
Read MoreSplendid Isolation
/…teeming crowd withdraws
Or I from it
Each shrinking from the other
Retreating down a long…
By Mike Turner
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