My Friend
my friend writes snow falling into photographs
my friend writes ‘the death of Walter Benjamin’
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Anna Wythe
Sep 12, 20221 min read
Exegesis
This poem came out of an encounter, a walk with a near-stranger by the Willamette River.
Joe Pickard
Sep 12, 20221 min read
Waiting for the Surf
'Your body slipping between waves
reminds me of absence between years
and how it dips with force pushing,
pulling back and forth'
Joe Pickard
Sep 12, 20221 min read
Stigmata
'To suffer your stigmata
at the kitchen sink
is to know you.'
Milly Butler
Sep 12, 20221 min read
Out Of Time
If I could begin again
l'd abstain from prodding the hourglass,
and addle the ache to gutter the sand faster.
Maya Walker
Sep 12, 20221 min read
Love Is A Learned Behavior
By Maya Walker like the dripping wax of an almost burned out candle, like a reel of film slowly, slowly, slowly passing through time,...
David Clemenceau
Sep 12, 20227 min read
Point. Blank
Audrey and Tic meet again, years after high school. Their paths cross in a Manhattan bakery.
Robert Stone
Sep 12, 202210 min read
Visit
Heriot pays a surprise visit to an old friend only to find that the past is rarely quite the place you remembered
Willow Kang Liew Bei
Sep 11, 20221 min read
Twin Embers
"Twins lay in the cold earth’s embrace,
each suckling from the same primordial vein"
Willow Kang Liew Bei
Sep 11, 20221 min read
Burning Letters in August
"Let the chill of the unfurling air linger
in withering bones."
Laura Stamps
Sep 11, 20222 min read
Turkey Tail
Turkey Tail mushrooms. Funny thing about mushrooms: Sometimes just seeing one can remind you of the importance of being good to yourself.
Craig Smith
Sep 11, 20226 min read
Trailback
Stood on the hard shoulder of the M1, Kerry Caldwell contemplates a ten-mile tailback, and considers his part in how it came about.
kangwillowbei
Sep 11, 20229 min read
Guns And Butter
Guns and Butter" is directly based upon a photograph taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt, entitled, "V-J Day in Times Square."
Elisha Oluyemi
Sep 11, 20224 min read
ANAGRAMS OF RED
Little Dera has to watch her aggrieved mother pull a test of love in the grimmest way possible // TW: Blood and Violence
Jerome Berglund
Sep 3, 20222 min read
Three Haigas by Berglund
Three photography-haiku hybrids by Jerome William Berglund.
Jennifer Lewis
Aug 30, 202211 min read
Forgotten and Unknown
Plagued by grief, a mother goes searching for answers to her pain. But life doesn't always have a reason. And God isn't always the answer.
Marcello Giovanelli
Aug 30, 20221 min read
Glacier Hydrology
A poem by Marcello Giovanelli: "We watch in awe from the surface as powerful rivers emerge."
Sadee Bee
Aug 30, 20222 min read
Death Rattle Not of Breath
Sadee Bee: "In moments that are difficult or dark, I often wish there was a quicker fix to the anguish or exhaustion."
Kayla Martell Feldman
Aug 30, 20222 min read
OUT OF OFFICE: 2041
this piece is a found poem, and is entirely made up of responses to the question "where do you see yourself in twenty years?"
Emily Munro
Aug 30, 20221 min read
Departure
An expectant mother arranges a plant for a photograph but is distracted by what she sees and hears through the window.
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