By Cornelius Eady
Some folks will tell you the blues is a woman,Some type of supernatural creature.My mother would tell...
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- By Paisley RekdalHow horrible it is, how horrible that Cronenberg film where Goldblum’s trapped with a fly inside his...
- By Benjamin GucciardiWe lived in a stone farmhouse at the edge of town. I’d been assigned to process asylum claims and you...
- By DaMaris B. HillEvery wife must apologize for not being her husband’s mother? But he will not forgive you. The absence...
- By H.D.I know not what to do,my mind is reft:is song's gift best?is love's gift loveliest?I know not what to...
- By Diana Marie DelgadoI turn on the radio and hear voices, girls becoming women after tragedy. Talk about dreams! His heart...
- By J. V. CunninghamThere is no stillness in this wood. The quiet of this clearing Is the denial of my hearing The sounds...
- By J. V. CunninghamYou are the problem I propose, My dear, the text my musings glose: I call you for convenience love. ...
- By Stacie CassarinoI admired the sea, most days, but not the heirs or millionaires sailing in stiff-capped winds, buttoned...
- By Aimee NezhukumatathilWhen Cleopatra received Antony on her cedarwood ship, she made sure he would smell her in advance across...
- By Moira EganThings happen when you drink too much mescal. One night, with not enough food in my belly, he kept on...
- By Nikki GiovanniMommy taught 3rd grade Her book was The Longest Way ’Round (Is The Shortest Way Home) I was an adult Before I ...
- By KB BrookinsI’m giving a chance to the parts of me that need to come home. For you, my lover, the concubine of my...
- By Justin Phillip ReedDoes a man with no intentions know he means you only harm? If lodged in the scar were a pearl of such...
- By T. S. EliotI Among the smoke and fog of a December afternoon You have the scene arrange itself — as it will seem...
- By Gabrielle BatesI am warned against marrying early love. I am also told it works out, sometimes, for saplings can be...
- By Jay HoplerNow that the sun has set and the rain has abated, And every porch light in the neighborhood is lit, ...
- By Diane SeussIt is abominable, unquenchable by touch, closer to the sublime than sentimental, more animal than hominid...
- By Diane SeussI met a man a dying man and I said me too. Met a dead man and I said me too. Must be dead cuz the living...
- By Diane SeussIntimacy unhinged, unpaddocked me. I didn’t want it. Believe me, I didn’t want it anymore. Who in their...