Literary Diaries

In The News Today by KIKO V. I awoke this morning to the tail end of a newscast on my radio: A deep, resonant voice informed me that the death toll in Syria had climbed to seven hundred and...

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Wheeze by DANNY KEIGHTLEY You draw smoke from my exhales, suck nicotine from my filtered lips, planting ash-dry kisses on my yellow skin. Our pale, matchstick fingers lock, as you roll your...

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Trifid Nebula by NORHAN ZAHER (I dream, sir, of the routes of my childhood of braiding my hair, taking off my shoes and returning to the old neighborhood we grew up in I dream of a...

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Nightingale by BRIANNA ROSE BURTON My nightingale sings of passing flesh, which daily sought to find itself in lover's eyes, to time, it seemed no less than transient, but loving endless below...

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Nature Preserve by KIKO V. As I enter the small, fenced-in nature preserve, a burst of gunfire from a nearby shooting range pierces the calm morning air. Strolling along a marshy bank, I spy a...

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You Bestow My Heart A Ceaseless Trance by NOURA HATEM I'm a fettered desire swirling perfectly like a blizzard within myself, and a broken dream flopping amidst the gloominess of an ebony...

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