Arts & Culture, Poetry

I would be remiss if I didn’t consider the possibility of gratitude

by William O'Leary July 20, 2017

For the brackish water, and electricity / That charge our thoughts and spines.

Arts & Culture, Poetry

On a Discharged Firework

by James Matthew Wilson July 17, 2017

Only the next day could The mystery begin, Its shocking fount of sparks In darkness now a memory, And the cooled cylinder Drowsing on the charred smear Of driveway. To approach In the abandoned silence And lift it up—which has, You think, by someone been Forbidden—and to smell The singed gunpowder, rich And sweet upon […]

Arts & Culture, Poetry

The Ambiguity of Cypress on the Via Bramasole

by Roger Johnson July 13, 2017

They line the road, the valley side, Back lit and dark as Satan’s horn. Their roots descend through rock and bone To Purgatory. Their points appear To pierce an isolated cloud. Front lit, they’re green and gay as holly, But dense, delightful steeples Pointing up to Beatrice, Whose love propelled the pilgrim’s universe, Whose benediction […]

Arts & Culture, Poetry

Popping like Gunfire

by Anh Dang July 6, 2017

I hear popping in my right ear again. It happens every time I chew and it annoys me so to the point where I have a hard time breaking things down enough to swallow. Yes, I have choked now and then because the popping is beginning to sound more like guns and my ears like […]

Arts & Culture, Poetry

Black Girl Blues

by Ever Taylor July 6, 2017

To be a black girl is to be ancient A walking cemetery A womb to only carry lynched sons and kidnapped daughters Have feet made of fossils Learning the oil spill of her birth A hip strong enough for her kin An underground railroad kind of back Backside to sit glass on And still enough […]