Lights Off
You sear my eyes with your fiery filament. A tear may form, but you’ll burn that too. So easy to shut off, but your switch— just out of...
Griffin Hamilton
Apr 12, 2024
The Support of a Floor
Only for you, I will be the floor you stride along, unmoving and concrete, steadying you on your feet, so you can see the world with my...
Xanadu Literary Magazine
Apr 12, 2024
A Bad Open
Awkward shuffles and shaky hands, wordless jumbles and darting eyes. This single instance, may determine my damnation. A friend or foe,...
Griffin Hamilton
Apr 11, 2024
Phoenix
Little chickadee— flittering about darkened clouds. Her firelit eyes scour scorched leaves and broken boughs— Their ardent flame looking...
William Iemma
Apr 9, 2024
Chapel
The most noticeable thing heard is opening doors. Occasionally the small mumbling of a Pleading child. Rarely the tears of a Mother...
Erika Moreira Tomasino
Apr 6, 2024
Insecurity
Looking in the clear reflection, I have an image in my mind. A slim nose, with thin eyebrows, as if I was a reflection of Bella Hadid or...
Judy Reilly
Apr 4, 2024
Melena Del Sur
How is it that I feel connected to a place that I’ve never been, or seen, with my own eyes? A place where I could only look at the lines...
Andrew Lorente
Apr 2, 2024
The Widowed School Desk
I stand to hold onto your greatest possessions. A silent sentinel, enduring it all. Yearning from the loss of the last. Day by day stands...
Andresa Hernandez
Mar 31, 2024
The Little Things
Her hair blows with the wind and the waves, the water nearly touches her kneecaps. You can hear children's screams carrying through...
Colton Kraese
Mar 29, 2024
Polaroid
The camera clicked with a flash. Sadness within as life goes by in seconds. The polaroid prints and develops into meaningful memories....
Cailin Claus
Mar 26, 2024





