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: 202 by Tess Dimler
202 Evenings spent skygazing from a small balcony, our window to the earth. Lost in the rosy pink like I imagine my heart must be clouds, Tufts of cotton. Were these moments, fixed in awe, hours or minutes? Who’s to say Afternoons spent baking. So many that our oven practically preheated itself, Whisking until […]
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 […]