Ahmad Siddiqi
Jun 21
Desperate Breaths
The once fertile strip lays more barren than her lifeless inhabitants. Retaliation is condemned by our oppressors. Desperate breaths...
Emma Lucana
Jun 18
Yellow
Sometimes the broken light bulb flickering erratically. And others the honey put into warm tea. Sharpened number two pencils or banana...
Andrew Lorente
Jun 16
Miramar
I see you are out at sea. Remnants of you left on the strand line full of dried sargassum seaweed woven between rotten driftwood and...
Helen Flores
Jun 14
Venus Flytrap
In the damp embrace of the bog's embrace, I stand, a guardian of green in the murky depths. My emerald-like leaves, razor teeth, and...
Mason Peretson
Jun 11
Snapdragon
My roar reaps the understory As my strangled stalk emerges from the den, Rumbling the trees surrounding Scaring those who seek me My...
William Iemma
Jun 11
Sugar Maple
Why must we pay for the crime of being sweet? This I ask to you who pierces my bark, and exposes my flesh to frigid air. You, who siphons...
Elise Abbate
Jun 11
Cosmos
Life is best lived in the sun. Or as a sun. A star in a vast oblivion. My life is like this. I live as a universe of stars, my peers,...
Katie Mondry
Jun 11
Wisteria
I crawl and hug, squeeze and constrict; I bloom and cascade. Lavender beauty; I choke and I strangle, wind and weaken the trees I hang...