God Is Probably A Water Tower by Robin Gow Everywhere I’ve lived you can always see one peering over the foreheads of buildings. This water tower is blue and wants everyone to drink deeply from re-usable water bottles. We’re killing the earth, I think and I take inventory of the beautiful debris […]
The Mother by Jay Frankston She takes the seeds from her womb, scatters them to the wind and sings to them, the Mother. And the wind lifts them high above fields, above fears, takes them round and round then lets them fall. And flowers and trees and children grow from the earth. And […]
Attack of the Fifty-Foot Woman by William Miller A girl, a woman grown too big, looms above the man-made world. A beaker filled with noxious green liquid– a botched experiment by men in white lab coats– was drained by accident… Loose in the street, she steps on roof tops, crushes picket fences and neat […]
Anniversary by Justin Reamer Silent screams in an empty vacuum, Plexiglass blocking oxygen, Tears fall from vulnerable eyes, Asphyxiating in the water below. Repeatedly the affliction recurs, The perpetual plight of the patient. Lungs know violent respiration, Hypertension in capillaries and veins; Anxious mind, profuse perspiration, Arrhythmia to cardiac arrest. Indigestion in the intestines, […]