HOPE: Hold On Pain Ends 1 Paralysis of the mind and the power it possesses Pulling the sensitive strings of the puppet it perplexes You’ve wandered far from the familiar form you’ve been fit with You’ve wandered close to the edge of “GOD HELP ME! What is this?” 2 […]
Poetry: A Restless Young Man by David Sapp
A Restless Young Man I was a restless young man, Presto agitato. However, I wasn’t the head-banging sort. For some odd reason, while My art school classmates Nodded to punk, the Sex Pistols Or Redness, a Cleveland band – Thin, ragged kids who bolted And welded sharp steel sculptures – Late at night, in […]
Poetry: The City of Trust by Peter Leight
The City of Trust is open on every side, like a room without walls, without doors, the same on every side, if you can speak of sides when it’s the same. Whenever you meet someone you say there you are, as if you’ve found the person you’re looking for—it’s better in person than over […]
Poetry: Coda by Justin Reamer
Coda The universe is a phonograph, Our lives mere vinyl recordings Playing daily mundane tunes, Monotony annual practice. Bugles whine in the background, Drums lethargic from humdrum; Violins strumming mediocrity, Tap the exhausted sonata. Measures scoring hebetude, Mind drifts slowly to sleep. Man picks up the trombone, His stand assembled before him; Unleashing the […]