Category: Creative Writing

POETRY – Chavonne Brown

She was not like unwitting prey,
That had never sighted the lion;
She fled from him, knowing
As she did what it meant…

TWO POEMS – Nadia Patterson

i’d put stickers all over the moon 
and hang it from the ceiling 
in the living room

5 COLLAGE POEMS – J.I. Kleinberg

sunshine snacked on
a little
morning

ONE POEM – Ian C. Smith

For those who forego the languor of home ground, that lethal rapine of routine, the most compelling sound of the travelling life might be a ferry’s foghorn throughout the night

COMFORT FOODS // Tortang Talong — Sadia Pineda Hameed

I receive a call from my mother. It is to tell me a recipe for tortang talong, which she learnt last night in a dream.

ONE POEM – Emily Barker

A drunk girl came up to me in a club last week and told me, yet again, that I look exactly, no, exACtly–Sarah! Come over here! Doesn’t she look exACtly like our Hannah?

ONE POEM – Clifford Brooks

Vacant of leaves 
and shell-wrapped gifts,
dad and I can see the sky.

ONE POEM – Linda M. Crate

the fox and i 
shared one glance
i think about it all the time

ONE POEM – Jack B. Bedell

and as soon as I touched the freezer’s handle,
the tar wall behind it rippled.

ONE POEM – Maura Way

I’m ready for the ritual
where I get crowned a
crone.

ONE POEM – Ben von Jagow

While I sleep
pygmy elephants
journey across my bedroom floor.

ONE POEM – Anne Gill

In lattie we held martinis,
un-clobbered each other –
left our cats on the floor in nishta.