Matthew Ruiz
Dec 28, 2017
Lost
Loneliness is a boat lost at sea small, wooden, endlessly floating. No land in sight. A storm keeps the boat struggling to stay afloat....
Jennifer Kirkpatrick
Dec 26, 2017
This Is Just to Say
This is just to say I took $20 Out of your Wallet You probably will never Get it back and Won’t be able to buy That shirt you want I’m...
Cyndy Bonilla
Dec 25, 2017
Loneliness
Loneliness is an empty room dust floating in the air, books piled on top of a rusty shelf flies and ants dead in a corner— The door...
Ariana Weindling
Dec 22, 2017
Future
I want to see the world. Different dimensions. Take me to a good day no war. no anger. Show me my future. Who will be by my side. Who...
Marco Chiriboga
Dec 19, 2017
Deliverance
Life seemed to have ended around here, the space dominated by rotten wood, faded paint, and crumbling walls. Wild animals had torn at the...
Peter Cerrito
Dec 19, 2017
Safe Haven
The box, covered with dust in a dark desolate attic. Mouse droppings littered across the ground around it and a beam of light shines...
Nadia Lubrano
Dec 19, 2017
Capsicum Annuum
Strolling over the grounds of an art museum I came across a garden, overgrown with wilted lettuce and intertwining tomato vines. Five...
Aisha Majid
Dec 19, 2017
This Time
That day she had double taped the cardboard, pulled the elastic band over it—held it closed, held it together, tears splattering without...
Brooke Decker
Dec 19, 2017
Thank You for the Broken Heart
As she sat in her running car, parked a block away from his house, she stared at the box in the passenger seat beside her. It contained...
Peter Cerrito
Dec 19, 2017
Neglect
Neglect is a stray dog shivering under an overpass ribs are bulging out of its body, its leg crippled its fur turned almost as black as...