In and Of Nature

In and Of Nature

The roots and herbs we just picked are now floating in the rain puddle that has overcome her satchel. I start to run, and she chases. She laughs like a …

It Would Only Take A Minute

It Would Only Take A Minute

It would only take one minute.  You are sitting alone. Alone at the lunch table like you always are. But she is so alive, fire and the bright lightning of …

Amethyst

Amethyst

Her hands are leaking into me.Her sweetness overtaking my sour, bitter bodyI can hear nothing outside the melody she speaks to meHer tongue flips and foldsInto affirmations woven from goldHer …

Is There a Word for Us?

Is There a Word for Us?

How do I describe myself? I know there are others like me and similarly have fundamental parts of themselves hidden, such hiding being out of necessity and inability to do …

Optometry

Optometry

OptometristThey treated me badly at the last placeCalled the regional manager and wentKarenSitting in the chair now, you looking into meInside of meKnowingThere are similarities All too clear Yeah, when …

HOLLA

by K. Quinn Marchman I saw the purest souls of my generationDirtied byRavenous Apathy and Rudderless Ambition.The daily minimum requirement of fucks to giveDamn proud to display the deficit. And …

Dharma Cums

by Matt Clifford “And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen …

Fucking Flowers

by Jane Ripley Fucking flowers in Spring. Fucking flower patterns on dresses. I long for darknessNoir films and Goth kidsSwaddled in black. I long for my Mother’s dark Sense of humorAs …