Autumn by MELISSA COOK She reminds me of Autumn. Leaves flushed in the most beautiful ways, cherry like her heart - sweet and sometimes sour, gold yet always silver. I'd paint her as a...
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Nurtured Ears by MELISSA COOK Tonight, I slumped 'gainst our door -sipping coffee- Your music it settled me - as though you had taken a paint brush to my spine and danced a melody. a...
Sunset by KIKO V. "You need to release the pressure in the hose when you're done watering!" I gently scold my mother using the same tone of voice she had often used with me decades...
Now by MYRYN VILLAFLOR the miles are simply longer than the lifetime of a bird, my days are measured to solitary nights, I confine. Those laughs we laughed; those tears we have not...
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...
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...