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. i been drawing trees .Art, Poetry

. i been drawing trees .

Sonja Benskin MesherJune 20, 2020

i borrowed your apron many years ago. i still have it and just remember you, your darkness. it was good news from the bad,…

Charlie OttowayPoetry, Readings

Charlie Ottoway

Milner PlaceJune 18, 2020

https://openartsforum.com/audio/milnerplace01.mp3   It was about ten to eleven when I went out into the street. The world was considerably empty except for some exceeding…

Why are you so sad?Poetry

Why are you so sad?

Kaci Skiles LawsJune 17, 2020

"Pick up your lip." Daddy said that night during a phone call. It was the day I got pulled out early from school after…

SometimesPoetry

Sometimes

Connie CarmichaelJune 15, 2020

Sometimes, if you are walking through a cemetery you might hear them calling after you. Their voices sound like rusty whistles and dry, crackling…

Silent BirdsPoetry

Silent Birds

Enas SuleimanJune 14, 2020

The smell of rain from my window tried to prepare me for your death. It tried to tell me that rain clouds have become…

critical thinkersPoetry

critical thinkers

Hanna Abi AklJune 12, 2020

always an admirer of critical thinking man is still a slave to his senses: he is slave to the cook flipping burgers in the…

I HAD CALLED IN SICKPoetry

I HAD CALLED IN SICK

John D RobinsonJune 11, 2020

I sat on the floor and two women were sat on my sofa: we were drinking wine and smoking joints: I knew one of…

Chain Book StoreCreative Non-Fiction, Essays, Fiction, Poetry

Chain Book Store

I watch them come in. The women in Mickey Mouse sweatshirts, their mouths open. They shuffle. Everybody shuffles. The men in winter coats with…

A Whiter HousePoetry

A Whiter House

Oliver StansfieldJune 9, 2020

Imagine there’s a painting adorning the wall of some president’s master bedroom. It hangs beneath a mirrored ceiling where his wife (lucky her) gets…

Falling Asleep to an Imagined Pretty GirlPoetry

Falling Asleep to an Imagined Pretty Girl

Daniel J. Flore IIIJune 7, 2020

I need to fall asleep to the thought of a pretty girl the world is gross and doesn't care the TV mutilates my vomit…

slave songs—2020Poetry

slave songs—2020

tiko lewisJune 4, 2020

lawd we march lawd we chant lawd we pray lawd i sing the body to a hemorrhage i sing "the fires are not my…