my friend writes snow falling into photographs my friend writes ‘the death of Walter Benjamin’

This poem came out of an encounter, a walk with a near-stranger by the Willamette River.

'Your body slipping between waves reminds me of absence between years and how it dips with force pushing, pulling back and forth'

'To suffer your stigmata at the kitchen sink is to know you.'

If I could begin again l'd abstain from prodding the hourglass, and addle the ache to gutter the sand faster.

By Maya Walker like the dripping wax of an almost burned out candle, like a reel of film slowly, slowly, slowly passing through time,...

Audrey and Tic meet again, years after high school. Their paths cross in a Manhattan bakery.

Heriot pays a surprise visit to an old friend only to find that the past is rarely quite the place you remembered

"Twins lay in the cold earth’s embrace, each suckling from the same primordial vein"

"Let the chill of the unfurling air linger in withering bones."

Turkey Tail mushrooms. Funny thing about mushrooms: Sometimes just seeing one can remind you of the importance of being good to yourself.

Stood on the hard shoulder of the M1, Kerry Caldwell contemplates a ten-mile tailback, and considers his part in how it came about.

Guns and Butter" is directly based upon a photograph taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt, entitled, "V-J Day in Times Square."

Little Dera has to watch her aggrieved mother pull a test of love in the grimmest way possible // TW: Blood and Violence

Three photography-haiku hybrids by Jerome William Berglund.

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.

A poem by Marcello Giovanelli: "We watch in awe from the surface as powerful rivers emerge."

Sadee Bee: "In moments that are difficult or dark, I often wish there was a quicker fix to the anguish or exhaustion."

this piece is a found poem, and is entirely made up of responses to the question "where do you see yourself in twenty years?"

An expectant mother arranges a plant for a photograph but is distracted by what she sees and hears through the window.