The Abstract Art Gallery
A writing gallery created by writers from around the world. From poetry to song lyrics, from essays to entire novels and short stories.
A spiritual man struggling…
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…itemized lists in his hands, he moved slowly up and down the shelves of the St. Louis Mercantile next to the St. Louis cemetery. Cemeteries in Louisiana are very much a fabric of Louisiana culture…
By The Barefoot Cajun
Read More…big white layer cake.
He’d click and chatter. He’d mimic
the field slaves’ hosannahs
until he’d almost faint…
By Jefferson Carter
Read More…it appears that in this, Our Great Land,
people offer a finger instead of a hand.
Oft’ willing to help if it don’t cost a thing,
and maybe to vote if they’re…
By Ken Gosse
Read More…is in constant motion, constantly rotating and revolving around the sun, leaving behind old ways, old thinking, racing towards updated thinking, modifying old ways to accommodate bigger…
By Benjamin Nambu
Read MoreI wanted to describe the…
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…most at ease when I think about you
I’m either thinking of you or forgetting to
One or the other, not both…
By DJ Elton
Read More"Self-made Therapy…
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…a stressful situation,
make it playful and light,
create a…
By Brenda Arledge
Read More…travelling away for work. He would rather put a twelve-hour shift in the office, than be sent to a random place with people he didn’t know. Every eighteen months or so, these…
By Chris Platt
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