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A Yellow Bus PassesPoetry

A Yellow Bus Passes

Dale PattersonJanuary 16, 2024

The holy man looks to the stars, tells time by the weight of the sky on his shoulders. He says that the end is…

An AdmissionPoetry

An Admission

Jordan TretheweyJanuary 15, 2024

It’s ridiculous to think we don’t disappoint someone every moment of every day. If father admits never having son’s back, it’s his revelation to…

Of the MomentPoetry

Of the Moment

HughLemmaJanuary 14, 2024

We will always have pariahs and darlings, wars and rumors of wars, plenty of old hatchets to exhume and soft centers to exploit. I'd…

LINES MADE OF SHATTERED GLASSPoetry

LINES MADE OF SHATTERED GLASS

Daniel J. Flore IIIJanuary 11, 2024

do not resuscitate this harsh dismantling of the self I cannot live this way any longer fractured dreams drooling out of my mouth as…

Close to Christmas, after allFiction

Close to Christmas, after all

Jay DoughertyJanuary 10, 2024

I sat up and read the alarm clock dial from the bed. 10 a.m. It was too late. I should have been at work…

Fitgirl RepackPoetry

Fitgirl Repack

Jenn ZedJanuary 9, 2024

the relentless drip drip drip tedium of my sobriety is matched only by the cliché predictability of a relapse so, i displace any program…

Cowboy CoffeePoetry

Cowboy Coffee

Julie A. DicksonJanuary 7, 2024

I dreamed she got a tattoo my mother [didn’t even approve of tattoos] on her back she lowered her robe for me to see…

Last CallPoetry

Last Call

Morgan DriscollJanuary 6, 2024

The day she fell my mother had 30 rolls of toilet paper neatly on her linen closet shelves. The list of things I might…

Drawn to the WildernessPoetry

Drawn to the Wilderness

Dale PattersonJanuary 5, 2024

The radio plays funeral music. Mother enters my dream, acknowledges love is a sail and sets me adrift. Perception is only one part of…