Poetry
The Fire This Time
It spread and flickered and licked the…
SUSAN L. POLLET
The Purpose
Over and over the task was set…
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
And Other Reasons
Lying awake…
ANNE MIKUSINKI
Why I Love Strangers More Than Friends
“Hey, how are you, what can I get for you?”
SAM HENDRIAN
End of the Line
To plan a family estate without child heirs…
Stephen Mead
You Left Me
In the wake of your departure…
Ke’Shawn Alexander
Writers on the Storm
Writers on the storm,
we’re just…
John RC Potter
The Pinnacle of Emptiness
It all began with a single raindrop…
Israel Olufemi Makanjuola
Acapulco by Night
Whirlpooling through darkness, undulating…
Linda Ann LoSchiavo
When Sikhs Dance
Sukhdev, Goddess of Happiness, will-of-the-wisps across the threshold…
Douglas Bullis
The Call
Is the wind that stirs the trees…
John Frederick Freeman
I Shall Return
I shall return again; I shall return…
Claude McKay
Charm Bracelet
What the sleeve exposes…
Glen Armstrong
Morning Song of the Bees
“Awake! awake! for the earliest gleam…
Louisa May Alcott
When the Winds Come Crashing Down
Prophet signs along the road, feigning signs of gates of gold…
Jake O’Keefe
Scars Story
Brown skin glowing under the pouring moonlight…
Petra F. Bagnardi
A Cry From an Indian Wife
My forest brave, my Red-skin love, farewell…
Emily Pauline Johnson
Solstice
A strange sadness,
like the cold…
Theo Sterling
For The Teenage Girl in the Parking Lot
First I notice your eyes — all red…
Bartholomew Barker
Words! Words!
How did it happen that we quarreled?
Jesse Fauset
Potrait
Her eyes? Dark pools of deepest shade…
George Leonard Allen
Double Dare
I was just a Metalhead
Dee Allen
The Haunted Oak
Pray why are you so bare
Paul Laurence Dunbar
A Song of Thanks
For the sun that shone at the dawn of spring
Edward Smyth Jones
The Family Ghost
I was summoned from the void by a witch named Suzanne
Dee Allen
